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Arne Slot declared he needed to “look at myself” following the Reds suffered a 6th loss in 7 Premier League games on their own turf against Nottingham Forest and insisted he would discover a solution from the champions’ slump.

Forest, in the relegation zone prior to the match, delivered the largest victory at Anfield in their club records as the Merseyside club fell to an eighth loss in 11 fixtures in all competitions. The most expensive domestic acquisition, Alexander Isak, was once more anonymous and Liverpool contended Murillo’s opener should have been ruled out for comparable grounds to Virgil van Dijk’s disallowed effort against Manchester City before the national team pause. But Slot admitted the responsibility rested with him and offered no alibis.

“Nobody wants to listen to me now talking about refereeing decisions if you lose 3-0 at home to Forest,” stated the Liverpool head coach. “I ought to look at my own role initially and my team, but it does show you how a score can alter the momentum of a match. Earlier I was just waiting for us to net a goal. Later we hardly generated anything.

“Of course there is a path forward, especially with the quality footballers we have. Regardless if you triumph or lose when you look back you are always considering: ‘Where can we do better, where can we make changes?’ but that is something else from questioning yourself.

“I want to emphasise I am responsible for the present defeats. You are answerable when you are victorious but also liable when you are losing. I can never come up with enough reasons for us to have the results we have. That is far from good enough and I am to blame for that.”

The team's display unravelled as Slot made several attacking changes when chasing the game. “It was the same away at Forest last season,” he remarked. “I took the French defender off and put on the Portuguese forward and he found the net immediately to make it 1-1. Then it was brave, currently it’s probably stupid.”

Liverpool previously were defeated in back-to-back at Anfield league games by Forest in the sixties. The last time they suffered back-to-back top-flight matches by a 3-0 scoreline was in 1965.

The manager commented: “It was very bad. Playing on home soil, losing 3-0 regardless of which opponent you encounter is a very, very bad result. Surprising if you consider the opening 30 minutes of the game. I did not witness us creating so many chances in the opening 30 minutes maybe the whole season, and the initial occasion they arrived in our penalty area they found the back of the net.

“It wasn’t against Manchester City, but in all other fixture we have been the controlling side and were able to generate chances. Recently it is nearly constantly that we fail to convert our chances and the attempts we allow find the net.”