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Arne Slot stated he had to “look at myself” after Liverpool suffered a sixth loss in 7 Premier League games on their own turf to Nottingham Forest and insisted he would find a way out of the title holders' slump.

Forest, in the relegation zone prior to the match, produced the biggest win at Anfield in their club records as the Merseyside club slipped to an 8th defeat in 11 fixtures in all competitions. The British record signing, Alexander Isak, was again unnoticeable and Liverpool argued the defender's first goal ought to have been disallowed for comparable grounds to Virgil van Dijk’s disallowed effort versus Manchester City before the international break. But Slot conceded the buck stopped with him and offered no alibis.

“Nobody wants to hear me now talking about officiating calls if you are defeated 3-0 at home to Forest,” stated the Liverpool head coach. “I should look at my own role first and my squad, but it demonstrates you how a score can alter the momentum of a game. Earlier I was just waiting for us to score a strike. Later we barely generated anything.

“Of course there is a path forward, particularly with the quality players we have. No matter if you win or are beaten when you reflect you are always thinking: ‘In which areas can we improve, in what aspects can we adjust?’ but that is different from questioning yourself.

“I wish to stress I am responsible for the current defeats. You are answerable when you are victorious but also responsible when you are losing. I can never come up with enough excuses for us to have the outcomes we have. That is far from good enough and I am to blame for that.”

Liverpool’s performance unravelled as the coach made multiple offensive substitutions when pursuing the match. “It was the identical on the road at Forest the previous campaign,” he said. “I took the French defender off and put on the Portuguese forward and he scored straight away to equalize at 1-1. At that time it was brave, now it’s probably stupid.”

Liverpool last lost back-to-back home league games by Nottingham Forest in the sixties. The last time they lost back-to-back top-flight matches by a 3-0 scoreline was in 1965.

Slot said: “It was very bad. Playing on home soil, losing 3-0 no matter which opponent you face is a terrible outcome. Unexpected if you look at the opening 30 minutes of the match. I haven’t seen us producing so much in the opening 30 minutes perhaps the entire campaign, and the initial occasion they entered in our penalty area they scored.

“It wasn’t at City, but in every other game we have been the controlling team and were able to generate chances. Lately it is nearly constantly that we miss our chances and the ones we concede go in.”