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Liverpool's head coach declared he had to “examine my own performance” after the Reds endured a 6th defeat in 7 Premier League matches at home against Forest and insisted he would find a way from the title holders' slump.

Forest, in the relegation zone before kick off, delivered the largest victory at Liverpool's stadium in their club records as the Merseyside club slipped to an 8th defeat in eleven fixtures in all competitions. The British record signing, Alexander Isak, was once more unnoticeable and Liverpool argued the defender's opener should have been disallowed for comparable grounds to Virgil van Dijk’s disallowed effort against City before the national team pause. But the manager admitted the buck stopped with him and offered no alibis.

“Nobody wishes to hear me now speaking about officiating calls if you are defeated 3-0 at home to Nottingham Forest,” said the Liverpool head coach. “I ought to examine my own role initially and my team, but it demonstrates you how a goal can alter the momentum of a game. Before I was just waiting for us to score a strike. Afterwards we barely generated any chances.

“Of course there is a path forward, especially with the quality players we have. Regardless if you triumph or lose when you reflect you are always thinking: ‘In which areas can we do better, in what aspects can we make changes?’ but that is something else from questioning your abilities.

“I want to stress I am responsible for the present losses. You are answerable when you are victorious but also liable when you are losing. I can never provide enough reasons for us to have the results we have. That is far from acceptable and I am to blame for that.”

Liverpool’s performance fell apart as the coach introduced multiple attacking substitutions when chasing the match. “It was the identical on the road at Forest the previous campaign,” he remarked. “I took the French defender off and put on the Portuguese forward and he scored immediately to make it 1-1. Then it was courageous, currently it’s likely stupid.”

The Anfield side previously were defeated in back-to-back home league fixtures against Forest in 1963. The most recent occasion they lost consecutive league games by a 3-0 margin was in the mid-60s.

Slot commented: “It was very bad. Competing at home, conceding 3-0 no matter which team you face is a terrible result. Unexpected if you look at the opening 30 minutes of the match. I haven’t seen us creating so many chances in the initial 30 minutes maybe the entire season, and the initial occasion they arrived in our box 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 capable to create chances. Lately it is almost constantly that we miss our opportunities and the ones we allow go in.”