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Liverpool's head coach stated he needed to “look at myself” after Liverpool endured a sixth defeat in 7 Premier League matches on their own turf against Forest and insisted he would discover a solution out of the title holders' slump.

Nottingham Forest, fighting against the drop before kick off, produced the largest victory at Liverpool's stadium in their history as Liverpool slipped to an eighth defeat in eleven matches in all competitions. The British record signing, the Swedish striker, was once more anonymous and the home side argued the defender's first goal ought to have been disallowed for similar reasons to Virgil van Dijk’s chalked-off goal against Manchester City before the international break. But Slot admitted the buck rested with him and made no excuses.

“No one wants to listen to me now talking about officiating calls if you are defeated 3-0 in your own stadium to Nottingham Forest,” said the Liverpool head coach. “I ought to look at myself first and my team, but it does show you how a goal can alter the momentum of a game. Before I was just hoping for us to net a strike. Afterwards we hardly created anything.

“Naturally there is a path forward, particularly with the quality footballers we have. Regardless if you win or lose when you look back you are always considering: ‘Where can we improve, where can we make changes?’ but that is something else from questioning your abilities.

“I wish to stress I am responsible for the present defeats. You are answerable when you are winning but also liable when you are defeated. I can never come up with enough reasons for us to have the outcomes we have. That is not good enough and I am responsible for that.”

The team's performance unravelled as Slot introduced several attacking changes when pursuing the match. “It was the identical on the road at Nottingham Forest last season,” he remarked. “I substituted the French defender off and put on [Diogo] Jota and he scored immediately to make it 1-1. At that time it was brave, now it’s probably unwise.”

The Anfield side last lost two successive home league fixtures against Nottingham Forest in 1963. The last time they lost back-to-back top-flight matches by a three-goal scoreline was in the mid-60s.

Slot commented: “It was very bad. Playing at home, losing 3-0 regardless of which opponent you face is a terrible outcome. Unexpected if you look at the opening 30 minutes of the game. I haven’t seen us producing so much in the initial 30 minutes perhaps the entire season, 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 game we have been the controlling side and were capable to generate opportunities. Recently it is almost consistently that we fail to convert our opportunities and the ones we allow go in.”