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Liverpool's head coach stated he had to “examine my own performance” after Liverpool endured a sixth defeat in seven Premier League matches on their own turf against Forest and affirmed he would find a way from the champions’ slump.

Forest, in the relegation zone before kick off, delivered the largest victory at Anfield in their history as Liverpool fell to an 8th loss in eleven matches in all competitions. The British record signing, the Swedish striker, was once more anonymous and Liverpool contended the defender's opener ought to have been ruled out for comparable grounds to Virgil van Dijk’s disallowed effort versus Manchester City prior to the international break. But Slot conceded the buck rested with him and offered no alibis.

“No one wishes to listen to me now speaking about refereeing decisions if you are defeated 3-0 in your own stadium to Forest,” stated the Liverpool head coach. “I ought to examine my own role initially and my team, but it demonstrates you how a goal can change the momentum of a match. Before I was just hoping for us to net a goal. Later we barely generated any chances.

“Naturally there is a path forward, particularly with the quality footballers we have. Regardless 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 different from questioning yourself.

“I want to stress I am accountable for the present losses. You are responsible when you are winning but also responsible when you are defeated. I can not provide enough excuses for us to have the results we have. That is far from good enough and I am to blame for that.”

Liverpool’s performance unravelled as Slot made several offensive substitutions when pursuing the match. “It was the identical on the road at Forest last season,” he remarked. “I substituted the French defender out and brought on the Portuguese forward and he found the net straight away to make it 1-1. At that time it was courageous, currently it’s likely stupid.”

Liverpool previously were defeated in back-to-back at Anfield Premier League fixtures against Forest in 1963. The last time they lost back-to-back league games by a 3-0 margin was in 1965.

Slot said: “It was extremely poor. Playing at home, conceding 3-0 regardless of which opponent you encounter is a very, very bad result. Surprising if you look at the first half-hour of the match. I did not witness us producing so much in the initial half-hour maybe the entire campaign, and the first time they arrived in our penalty area they found the back of the net.

“It wasn’t against Manchester City, but in every other game we have been the dominant side and were able to create opportunities. Lately it is almost consistently that we fail to convert our opportunities and the attempts we concede find the net.”