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Liverpool's head coach stated he had to “look at myself” following the Reds suffered a 6th defeat in seven English top-flight matches on their own turf to Forest and affirmed he would find a way out of the champions’ poor run.

Nottingham Forest, fighting against the drop prior to the match, produced the largest win at Liverpool's stadium in their history as the Merseyside club fell to an 8th defeat in eleven matches in all competitions. The British record signing, Alexander Isak, was again anonymous and Liverpool contended Murillo’s first goal ought to have been disallowed for comparable grounds to the captain's disallowed effort versus Manchester City before the national team pause. But Slot admitted the responsibility rested with him and offered no alibis.

“No one wishes to listen to me now speaking about refereeing decisions if you lose 3-0 at home to Forest,” said the Liverpool head coach. “I should examine myself initially and my team, but it does show you how a goal can alter the momentum of a match. Before I was just hoping for us to score a goal. Later we barely generated anything.

“Naturally there is a path forward, particularly with the quality footballers we have. Regardless if you win or are beaten when you reflect you are always considering: ‘Where can we improve, where can we make changes?’ but that is something else from doubting yourself.

“I wish to emphasise I am accountable for the current defeats. You are answerable when you are winning but also responsible when you are defeated. I can never come up with enough excuses for us to have the results we have. That is not acceptable and I am responsible for that.”

Liverpool’s performance unravelled as the coach introduced multiple offensive changes when pursuing the game. “It was the same away at Nottingham Forest last season,” he said. “I substituted the French defender off and put on the Portuguese forward and he scored immediately to equalize at 1-1. Then it was brave, now it’s likely stupid.”

Liverpool previously were defeated in back-to-back at Anfield league games against Forest in the sixties. The last time they lost back-to-back league matches by a 3-0 margin was in the mid-60s.

The manager said: “It was extremely poor. Competing at home, conceding 3-0 regardless of which opponent you face is a very, very bad result. Surprising if you consider the opening 30 minutes of the match. I did not witness us producing so many chances in the opening 30 minutes perhaps the whole campaign, and the first time they entered in our box they scored.

“It wasn’t against Manchester City, but in every other game we have been the dominant side and were able to generate chances. Lately it is nearly constantly that we miss our chances and the attempts we concede go in.”