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Liverpool's head coach stated he had to “examine my own performance” following Liverpool endured a 6th loss in 7 Premier League games at home against Forest and insisted he would discover a solution from the champions’ poor run.

Nottingham Forest, fighting against the drop prior to the match, produced the biggest victory at Anfield in their history as the Merseyside club slipped to an 8th loss in eleven fixtures in all competitions. The most expensive domestic acquisition, Alexander Isak, was once more anonymous and Liverpool argued Murillo’s opener ought to have been ruled out for similar reasons to Virgil van Dijk’s disallowed effort versus City prior to the international break. But Slot admitted the responsibility 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 Forest,” said the Reds' boss. “I should examine my own role first and my squad, but it demonstrates you how a goal can alter the flow of a match. Earlier I was just waiting for us to net a goal. Later we hardly generated any chances.

“Of course there is a way out, particularly with the quality players we have. Regardless if you triumph 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 something else from questioning yourself.

“I wish to stress I am responsible for the current defeats. You are responsible when you are winning but also liable when you are defeated. I can not provide enough reasons for us to have the results we have. That is far from good enough and I am responsible for that.”

The team's performance fell apart as the coach introduced several attacking changes when chasing the game. “It was the identical away at Forest last season,” he said. “I substituted the French defender out and brought on the Portuguese forward and he found the net straight away to make it 1-1. Then it was courageous, currently it’s probably stupid.”

The Anfield side previously were defeated in two successive home Premier League games by Nottingham Forest in 1963. The last time they lost back-to-back league matches by a 3-0 scoreline was in 1965.

The manager said: “It was very bad. Competing on home soil, conceding 3-0 regardless of which team you face is a terrible result. Unexpected if you look at the first half-hour of the match. I did not witness us producing so many chances in the opening 30 minutes perhaps the entire season, and the initial occasion they entered in our box they scored.

“It wasn’t against Manchester City, but in every other fixture we have been the dominant side and were capable to create chances. Lately it is almost constantly that we fail to convert our chances and the ones we concede go in.”