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Liverpool's head coach stated he had to “examine my own performance” following Liverpool suffered a sixth loss in seven English top-flight games on their own turf to Forest and affirmed he would discover a way from the champions’ slump.

Forest, in the relegation zone before kick off, delivered the biggest win at Liverpool's stadium in their club records as Liverpool slipped to an 8th loss in eleven matches in every tournament. The British record signing, Alexander Isak, was again unnoticeable and the home side argued the defender's opener ought to have been disallowed for comparable grounds to Virgil van Dijk’s chalked-off goal versus Manchester City prior to the national team pause. But Slot admitted the responsibility stopped with him and made no excuses.

“Nobody wants to listen to me now speaking about officiating calls if you lose 3-0 in your own stadium to Nottingham Forest,” stated the Reds' boss. “I should look at my own role initially and my squad, but it does show you how a score can alter the momentum of a match. Before I was just hoping for us to score a goal. Later we barely created anything.

“Naturally there is a way out, especially with the talented players we have. Regardless if you win or are beaten when you reflect you are always considering: ‘In which areas can we do better, where can we adjust?’ but that is something else from questioning your abilities.

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

The team's display unravelled as Slot made several attacking substitutions when chasing the match. “It was the same on the road at Nottingham Forest the previous campaign,” he said. “I took the French defender out and brought on the Portuguese forward and he scored straight away to equalize at 1-1. At that time it was courageous, now it’s probably unwise.”

Liverpool last lost two successive home league fixtures against Nottingham Forest in the sixties. The most recent occasion they lost back-to-back top-flight matches by a three-goal margin was in the mid-60s.

Slot commented: “It was very bad. Competing on home soil, conceding 3-0 no matter which team you encounter is a terrible outcome. Surprising if you consider the opening 30 minutes of the match. I haven’t seen us creating so many chances in the initial half-hour maybe the whole campaign, and the initial occasion they arrived in our box they found the back of the net.

“It did not happen at City, but in every other fixture we have been the dominant team and were capable to generate chances. Lately it is nearly constantly that we fail to convert our opportunities and the ones we allow go in.”