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Liverpool's head coach stated he needed to “examine my own performance” following Liverpool suffered a sixth defeat in seven Premier League matches on their own turf against Forest and insisted he would find a solution from the champions’ slump.

Nottingham Forest, in the relegation zone before kick off, produced the largest win at Liverpool's stadium in their history as the Merseyside club fell to an eighth defeat in eleven matches in every tournament. The British record signing, Alexander Isak, was again unnoticeable and Liverpool contended the defender's opener ought to have been disallowed for similar reasons to Virgil van Dijk’s disallowed effort against City prior to the national team pause. But Slot admitted the buck stopped with him and made no excuses.

“No one wants to listen to me now talking about refereeing decisions if you lose 3-0 in your own stadium to Forest,” stated the Reds' boss. “I should examine my own role first and my team, but it demonstrates you how a score can change the momentum of a match. Earlier I was just hoping for us to net a goal. Afterwards we hardly created anything.

“Naturally there is a way out, especially with the quality footballers we have. No matter if you triumph or are beaten when you look back you are always thinking: ‘In which areas can we do better, where can we adjust?’ but that is different from questioning your abilities.

“I wish to emphasise I am responsible for the current defeats. You are responsible when you are victorious but also responsible when you are defeated. I can never provide sufficient excuses for us to have the results we have. That is not good enough and I am responsible for that.”

Liverpool’s display unravelled as the coach introduced several attacking changes when pursuing the match. “It was the identical away at Nottingham Forest last season,” he remarked. “I took the French defender off and brought on [Diogo] Jota and he scored straight away to make it 1-1. At that time it was courageous, currently it’s probably unwise.”

The Anfield side last lost back-to-back home league games by Nottingham Forest in the sixties. The last time they suffered back-to-back top-flight matches by a three-goal margin was in 1965.

The manager commented: “It was very bad. Competing at home, conceding 3-0 regardless of which opponent you encounter is a very, very bad result. Surprising if you look at the opening 30 minutes of the game. I did not witness us creating so many chances in the opening half-hour maybe the whole season, and the initial occasion they entered in our box 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 generate chances. Lately it is nearly consistently that we fail to convert our opportunities and the ones we concede go in.”