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Liverpool's head coach declared he needed to “examine my own performance” following the Reds suffered a sixth loss in 7 English top-flight games on their own turf to Nottingham Forest and insisted he would find a way out of the champions’ poor run.

Forest, in the relegation zone before kick off, produced the largest win at Anfield in their club records as Liverpool fell to an eighth defeat in 11 fixtures in all competitions. The most expensive domestic acquisition, Alexander Isak, was once more anonymous and Liverpool contended the defender's opener ought to have been disallowed for comparable grounds to the captain's chalked-off goal versus Manchester City prior to the national team pause. But Slot admitted the responsibility rested with him and made no excuses.

“Nobody wants to listen to me now talking about refereeing decisions if you are defeated 3-0 in your own stadium to Forest,” said the Reds' boss. “I ought to examine my own role first and my team, but it demonstrates you how a goal can change the flow of a match. Before I was just waiting for us to net a goal. Later we barely created anything.

“Of course there is a path forward, especially with the talented footballers we have. No matter if you win or lose when you reflect you are always considering: ‘In which areas can we do better, in what aspects can we adjust?’ but that is something else from doubting your abilities.

“I wish to stress I am responsible for the present defeats. You are answerable when you are winning but also responsible when you are defeated. I can not 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.”

The team's performance unravelled as Slot introduced several attacking substitutions when chasing the game. “It was the identical away at 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, now it’s probably stupid.”

Liverpool last lost back-to-back home league fixtures by Forest in the sixties. The last time they suffered back-to-back league games by a 3-0 margin was in 1965.

Slot said: “It was very bad. Playing at home, conceding 3-0 regardless of which team you face is a terrible outcome. Unexpected if you look at the first half-hour of the game. I haven’t seen us creating so many chances in the initial half-hour maybe the whole campaign, and the first time they arrived in our box they scored.

“It wasn’t against Manchester City, but in every other game we have been the controlling side and were able to generate opportunities. Lately it is nearly consistently that we fail to convert our opportunities and the ones we concede go in.”