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Liverpool's head coach stated he needed to “look at myself” after Liverpool suffered a sixth defeat in 7 Premier League matches on their own turf to Forest and insisted he would discover a way from the champions’ slump.

Forest, in the relegation zone prior to the match, produced the biggest win at Liverpool's stadium in their history as the Merseyside club fell to an 8th loss in eleven matches in every tournament. The British record signing, Alexander Isak, was again anonymous and Liverpool contended Murillo’s opener should have been ruled out for comparable grounds to Virgil van Dijk’s disallowed effort against Manchester City prior to the international break. But the manager admitted the responsibility stopped with him and made no excuses.

“No one wants to listen to me now talking about officiating calls if you are defeated 3-0 at home to Forest,” stated the Liverpool head coach. “I ought to examine my own role initially and my team, but it demonstrates you how a goal can change the flow of a game. Before I was just waiting for us to score a strike. Afterwards we hardly generated any chances.

“Of course there is a path forward, particularly with the talented footballers we have. Regardless if you triumph or are beaten when you reflect you are always considering: ‘In which areas can we do better, in what aspects can we make changes?’ but that is different from doubting yourself.

“I wish to stress I am responsible for the present defeats. You are responsible when you are winning but also liable when you are losing. I can never come up with sufficient reasons for us to have the outcomes we have. That is far from good enough and I am to blame for that.”

Liverpool’s performance fell apart as the coach introduced several offensive substitutions when chasing the game. “It was the same away at Forest last season,” he said. “I substituted the French defender out and brought on [Diogo] Jota and he scored straight away to equalize at 1-1. At that time it was courageous, now it’s probably stupid.”

The Anfield side previously were defeated in two successive at Anfield league games against Forest in 1963. The most recent occasion they lost consecutive league games by a 3-0 scoreline was in 1965.

Slot said: “It was very bad. Competing on home soil, conceding 3-0 regardless of which team you face is a terrible result. Unexpected if you look at the first half-hour of the game. I did not witness us creating so many chances in the opening half-hour maybe the entire campaign, and the first time they entered in our penalty area they found the back of the net.

“It wasn’t against Manchester City, but in every other game we have been the controlling side and were able to generate chances. Recently it is almost constantly that we fail to convert our chances and the ones we allow find the net.”