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Liverpool's head coach declared he needed to “look at myself” after Liverpool endured a sixth defeat in 7 Premier League games on their own turf against Forest and insisted he would find a solution out of the champions’ poor run.

Forest, fighting against the drop before kick off, produced the biggest win at Anfield in their club records as Liverpool slipped to an 8th loss in 11 matches in all competitions. The most expensive domestic acquisition, Alexander Isak, was again unnoticeable and the home side contended Murillo’s opener ought to have been disallowed for similar reasons to the captain's disallowed effort versus Manchester City before the international break. But the manager conceded the buck rested with him and made no excuses.

“No one wants to listen to me now talking about refereeing decisions if you are defeated 3-0 at home to Nottingham Forest,” said the Liverpool head coach. “I ought to look at myself initially and my team, but it demonstrates you how a goal can change the momentum of a match. Before I was just waiting for us to score a goal. Afterwards we hardly generated anything.

“Of course there is a path forward, particularly with the quality footballers we have. No matter if you triumph or are beaten when you look back you are always considering: ‘In which areas can we improve, in what aspects can we make changes?’ but that is something else from doubting yourself.

“I want to emphasise I am accountable for the present losses. You are responsible when you are victorious but also liable when you are losing. I can never provide sufficient excuses for us to have the results we have. That is far from acceptable and I am to blame for that.”

The team's performance fell apart as Slot introduced multiple attacking substitutions when pursuing the match. “It was the identical away at Nottingham Forest the previous campaign,” he said. “I substituted the French defender off and brought on [Diogo] Jota and he scored straight away to equalize at 1-1. At that time it was courageous, currently it’s probably unwise.”

The Anfield side previously were defeated in two successive at Anfield Premier League games against 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 extremely poor. Playing at home, losing 3-0 regardless of which team you face is a terrible result. Unexpected if you look at the opening 30 minutes of the match. I did not witness us creating so much in the opening 30 minutes perhaps the whole campaign, and the initial occasion they entered in our box they scored.

“It did not happen at City, but in all other fixture we have been the controlling side and were capable to generate opportunities. Lately it is almost consistently that we miss our opportunities and the ones we concede go in.”