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Liverpool's head coach declared he needed to “examine my own performance” following Liverpool suffered a sixth loss in 7 English top-flight matches at home to Nottingham Forest and affirmed he would discover a solution out of the champions’ poor run.

Forest, in the relegation zone prior to the match, delivered the largest win at Liverpool's stadium in their history as Liverpool fell to an eighth loss in 11 matches in all competitions. The British record signing, the Swedish striker, was once more unnoticeable and the home side contended the defender's opener ought to have been disallowed for similar reasons to the captain's chalked-off goal versus City prior to the international break. But the manager conceded the buck stopped with him and offered no alibis.

“No one wants to listen to me now speaking about officiating calls if you are defeated 3-0 in your own stadium to Nottingham Forest,” stated the Reds' boss. “I ought to examine myself initially and my team, but it demonstrates you how a goal can change the momentum of a game. Earlier I was just hoping for us to score a goal. Later we hardly generated anything.

“Of course there is a way out, particularly with the quality players we have. No matter if you triumph or lose when you reflect you are always considering: ‘Where can we improve, where can we make changes?’ but that is different from questioning yourself.

“I want to emphasise I am accountable for the current losses. You are answerable when you are victorious but also responsible when you are losing. I can not provide enough reasons for us to have the results we have. That is not good enough and I am responsible for that.”

Liverpool’s performance unravelled as Slot made several offensive changes when pursuing the match. “It was the same on the road at Forest the previous campaign,” he said. “I substituted Ibou [Ibrahima Konaté] out and brought on the Portuguese forward and he scored immediately to equalize at 1-1. Then it was courageous, now it’s probably unwise.”

The Anfield side previously were defeated in two successive at Anfield league games by Forest in 1963. The most recent occasion they suffered consecutive league matches by a 3-0 margin was in 1965.

Slot commented: “It was very bad. Competing at home, losing 3-0 no matter which opponent you face is a very, very bad result. Unexpected if you look at the first half-hour of the match. I haven’t seen us producing so much in the opening 30 minutes perhaps the entire season, and the initial occasion they arrived in our penalty area they found the back of the net.

“It wasn’t at City, but in every other fixture we have been the controlling side and were capable to generate chances. Lately it is nearly consistently that we miss our opportunities and the attempts we allow go in.”