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Liverpool's head coach declared he needed to “examine my own performance” after the Reds suffered a sixth defeat in seven English top-flight games at home against Forest and affirmed he would discover a way out of the title holders' poor run.

Nottingham Forest, fighting against the drop before kick off, delivered the largest win at Liverpool's stadium in their club records as the Merseyside club fell to an 8th loss in 11 matches in all competitions. The British record signing, Alexander Isak, was once more unnoticeable and the home side argued the defender's first goal ought to have been disallowed for similar reasons to the captain's disallowed effort versus Manchester City before the national team pause. But the manager admitted the buck stopped with him and made no excuses.

“No one wants to hear me now talking about officiating calls if you lose 3-0 in your own stadium to Forest,” stated the Reds' boss. “I should look at myself first and my squad, but it does show you how a goal can change the flow of a match. Before I was just waiting for us to score a goal. Later we hardly created any chances.

“Naturally there is a path forward, particularly with the quality players we have. No matter if you win or are beaten when you look back you are always considering: ‘Where can we do better, where can we adjust?’ but that is something else from doubting yourself.

“I want to stress I am accountable for the current defeats. You are answerable when you are winning but also responsible when you are defeated. I can never come up with 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 unravelled as Slot introduced several attacking changes when chasing the match. “It was the identical on the road at Nottingham Forest last season,” he remarked. “I substituted the French defender out and put on the Portuguese forward and he found the net immediately to make it 1-1. At that time it was courageous, now it’s likely unwise.”

The Anfield side last lost two successive home Premier League games by Forest in 1963. The most recent occasion they lost back-to-back top-flight matches by a 3-0 margin was in 1965.

The manager said: “It was extremely poor. Competing on home soil, conceding 3-0 no matter which opponent you encounter is a terrible outcome. Unexpected if you consider the first half-hour of the match. I did not witness us producing so many chances in the initial 30 minutes perhaps the whole campaign, and the first time they entered in our penalty area they found the back of the net.

“It did not happen at City, but in all other fixture we have been the dominant team and were capable to create opportunities. Lately it is almost consistently that we miss our opportunities and the ones we allow go in.”