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Liverpool's head coach declared he had to “examine my own performance” after Liverpool suffered a 6th loss in 7 Premier League games on their own turf against Forest and affirmed he would discover a way out of the champions’ poor run.

Forest, in the relegation zone before kick off, produced the largest win at Anfield in their history as the Merseyside club fell to an eighth loss in eleven fixtures in every tournament. The most expensive domestic acquisition, Alexander Isak, was again unnoticeable and Liverpool argued the defender's first goal ought to have been ruled out for similar reasons to Virgil van Dijk’s disallowed effort against Manchester City prior to the international break. But the manager conceded the responsibility stopped with him and made no excuses.

“Nobody wants to listen to me now speaking about refereeing decisions if you are defeated 3-0 in your own stadium to Nottingham Forest,” stated the Reds' boss. “I ought to look at myself initially and my squad, but it demonstrates you how a score can change the flow of a match. Before I was just waiting for us to net a strike. Later we barely created any chances.

“Of course there is a way out, especially with the quality players we have. No matter if you triumph or lose when you reflect you are always considering: ‘Where can we do better, in what aspects can we adjust?’ but that is different from questioning yourself.

“I want to stress I am accountable for the present losses. You are answerable when you are winning but also liable when you are defeated. I can not come up with sufficient reasons for us to have the results we have. That is not acceptable and I am to blame for that.”

The team's performance unravelled as the coach made multiple offensive substitutions when pursuing the match. “It was the same away at Nottingham Forest the previous campaign,” he said. “I substituted Ibou [Ibrahima Konaté] out and put on the Portuguese forward and he scored straight away to make it 1-1. At that time it was courageous, now it’s likely unwise.”

Liverpool last lost two successive home league fixtures by Nottingham Forest in 1963. The last time they suffered back-to-back top-flight matches by a 3-0 scoreline was in 1965.

Slot said: “It was very bad. Competing at home, losing 3-0 regardless of which team you encounter is a very, very bad outcome. Surprising if you consider the opening 30 minutes of the match. I did not witness us creating so many chances in the opening half-hour perhaps the whole season, and the initial occasion they arrived in our box they scored.

“It did not happen against Manchester City, but in every other game we have been the dominant team and were capable to create chances. Lately it is almost constantly that we fail to convert our chances and the attempts we concede go in.”