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Arne Slot stated he had to “look at myself” following Liverpool suffered a sixth loss in 7 English top-flight matches at home against Nottingham Forest and insisted he would find a way from the title holders' slump.

Nottingham Forest, fighting against the drop before kick off, produced the biggest win at Anfield in their history as the Merseyside club slipped to an 8th defeat in eleven matches in every tournament. The most expensive domestic acquisition, Alexander Isak, was once more unnoticeable and Liverpool argued the defender's first goal ought to have been ruled out for similar reasons to Virgil van Dijk’s chalked-off goal versus City before the international break. But the manager conceded the buck stopped with him and offered no alibis.

“Nobody wishes to hear me now speaking about refereeing decisions if you lose 3-0 at home to Forest,” said the Liverpool head coach. “I ought to examine my own role initially and my squad, but it does show you how a goal can alter the flow of a game. Earlier I was just hoping for us to score a goal. Later we barely created anything.

“Of course there is a way out, especially with the quality players we have. Regardless if you triumph or lose when you reflect you are always considering: ‘Where can we improve, in what aspects can we adjust?’ but that is different from questioning your abilities.

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

Liverpool’s display fell apart as Slot introduced multiple attacking substitutions when chasing the match. “It was the identical on the road at Nottingham Forest the previous campaign,” he remarked. “I took Ibou [Ibrahima Konaté] off and put on [Diogo] Jota and he found the net straight away to make it 1-1. Then it was brave, now it’s likely stupid.”

Liverpool previously were defeated in two successive home Premier League games by Forest in 1963. The last time they suffered back-to-back top-flight matches by a 3-0 margin was in the mid-60s.

Slot commented: “It was very bad. Playing at home, conceding 3-0 regardless of which opponent you encounter is a very, very bad result. Surprising if you look at the opening 30 minutes of the game. I did not witness us creating so many chances in the initial 30 minutes maybe the entire season, and the first time they entered in our penalty area they found the back of the net.

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