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Liverpool's head coach stated he needed to “look at myself” after Liverpool endured a sixth loss in seven English top-flight games on their own turf against Nottingham Forest and affirmed he would discover a solution from the title holders' slump.

Nottingham Forest, fighting against the drop prior to the match, delivered the biggest victory at Anfield in their club records as the Merseyside club fell to an 8th defeat in 11 matches in every tournament. The British record signing, the Swedish striker, was again unnoticeable and the home side argued Murillo’s opener ought to have been ruled out for comparable grounds to the captain's chalked-off goal against Manchester City prior to the national team pause. But the manager conceded the buck stopped with him and made no excuses.

“No one wants to hear me now talking about refereeing decisions if you lose 3-0 in your own stadium to Nottingham Forest,” said the Liverpool head coach. “I should examine myself initially and my squad, but it does show you how a goal can change the momentum of a game. Before I was just waiting for us to score a strike. Later we barely generated anything.

“Naturally there is a way out, particularly with the quality players we have. Regardless if you triumph or lose when you look back you are always thinking: ‘Where can we improve, where can we make changes?’ but that is something else from questioning yourself.

“I want to emphasise I am responsible for the current defeats. You are answerable when you are victorious but also responsible when you are defeated. I can not come up with enough reasons for us to have the outcomes we have. That is not good enough and I am to blame for that.”

Liverpool’s performance fell apart as Slot introduced multiple offensive changes when chasing the match. “It was the identical away at Forest the previous campaign,” he remarked. “I substituted the French defender off and brought on [Diogo] Jota and he found the net straight away to equalize at 1-1. Then it was brave, now it’s likely stupid.”

The Anfield side previously were defeated in back-to-back home league fixtures against Nottingham Forest in 1963. The last time they lost consecutive league games by a three-goal margin was in 1965.

Slot said: “It was very bad. Playing at home, conceding 3-0 regardless of which team you face is a very, very bad outcome. Unexpected if you consider the opening 30 minutes of the match. I haven’t seen us creating so much in the initial 30 minutes maybe the entire campaign, and the first time they arrived in our box they scored.

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