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Arne Slot declared he needed to “examine my own performance” after Liverpool suffered a 6th loss in seven Premier League matches at home to Forest and affirmed he would find a way from the champions’ poor run.

Nottingham Forest, in the relegation zone prior to the match, produced the largest win at Anfield in their history as the Merseyside club fell to an 8th loss in eleven fixtures in all competitions. The British record signing, the Swedish striker, was once more anonymous and Liverpool argued Murillo’s opener should have been disallowed for comparable grounds to Virgil van Dijk’s disallowed effort against City prior to the international break. But the manager conceded the buck stopped with him and offered no alibis.

“No one wants to listen to me now speaking about officiating calls if you lose 3-0 in your own stadium to Forest,” stated the Liverpool head coach. “I should examine my own role initially and my squad, but it demonstrates you how a goal can change the flow of a match. Earlier I was just hoping for us to net a goal. Later we barely generated anything.

“Naturally there is a way out, particularly with the quality players we have. Regardless if you triumph or lose when you reflect you are always thinking: ‘In which areas can we improve, in what aspects can we adjust?’ but that is different from questioning your abilities.

“I want to stress I am accountable for the current defeats. You are answerable when you are victorious but also responsible when you are losing. I can not provide sufficient excuses for us to have the results we have. That is far from good enough and I am to blame for that.”

Liverpool’s performance unravelled as Slot made multiple attacking substitutions when pursuing the game. “It was the identical away at Nottingham Forest last season,” he remarked. “I took the French defender out and put on the Portuguese forward and he found the net immediately to equalize at 1-1. At that time it was brave, currently it’s likely stupid.”

Liverpool last lost two successive at Anfield league games by Forest in 1963. The last time they lost consecutive league matches by a three-goal margin was in 1965.

The manager said: “It was very bad. Competing on home soil, conceding 3-0 regardless of which opponent you encounter is a very, very bad result. Unexpected if you consider the first half-hour of the game. I haven’t seen us producing so many chances in the initial 30 minutes maybe the whole campaign, and the first time they arrived in our penalty area they found the back of the net.

“It wasn’t at City, but in every other fixture we have been the controlling side and were able to create opportunities. Recently it is nearly constantly that we miss our chances and the attempts we concede find the net.”