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Arne Slot declared he needed to “look at myself” after the Reds endured a 6th loss in 7 Premier League games at home to Nottingham Forest and affirmed he would discover a way from the champions’ poor run.

Nottingham Forest, fighting against the drop prior to the match, delivered the largest victory at Liverpool's stadium in their history as Liverpool fell to an 8th loss in 11 matches in all competitions. The most expensive domestic acquisition, Alexander Isak, was again anonymous and the home side argued the defender's opener ought to have been ruled out for comparable grounds to Virgil van Dijk’s chalked-off goal against City before the national team pause. But Slot admitted the buck rested with him and made no excuses.

“Nobody wants to listen to me now talking about refereeing decisions if you are defeated 3-0 at home to Nottingham Forest,” said the Liverpool head coach. “I ought to examine my own role first and my team, but it demonstrates you how a score can alter the momentum of a game. Before I was just waiting for us to net a goal. Later we hardly generated any chances.

“Naturally there is a path forward, especially with the talented footballers we have. No matter if you triumph or lose when you look back you are always considering: ‘In which areas can we improve, where can we adjust?’ but that is different from doubting your abilities.

“I wish to emphasise I am accountable for the current defeats. You are answerable when you are victorious but also responsible when you are defeated. I can never provide enough reasons for us to have the results we have. That is far from good enough and I am responsible for that.”

The team's display fell apart as Slot made multiple offensive changes when chasing the match. “It was the identical on the road at Forest last season,” he said. “I took the French defender out and brought on the Portuguese forward and he found the net straight away to equalize at 1-1. Then it was courageous, now it’s probably unwise.”

The Anfield side previously were defeated in two successive home Premier League games by Nottingham Forest in 1963. The last time they lost consecutive league matches by a 3-0 margin was in 1965.

The manager commented: “It was very bad. Playing on home soil, losing 3-0 no matter which opponent you encounter is a very, very bad outcome. Unexpected if you look at the first half-hour of the game. I did not witness us producing so many chances in the initial 30 minutes perhaps the entire campaign, and the initial occasion they arrived in our box they found the back of the net.

“It wasn’t at City, but in all other fixture we have been the controlling team and were capable to create chances. Lately it is almost consistently that we fail to convert our opportunities and the ones we allow go in.”