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Liverpool's head coach stated he needed to “examine my own performance” after the Reds endured a 6th loss in seven English top-flight matches on their own turf against Forest and affirmed he would discover a solution from the champions’ slump.

Forest, fighting against the drop prior to the match, produced the biggest win at Liverpool's stadium in their history as Liverpool slipped to an 8th defeat in eleven matches in all competitions. The most expensive domestic acquisition, Alexander Isak, was again unnoticeable and Liverpool argued Murillo’s first goal ought to have been disallowed for similar reasons to Virgil van Dijk’s disallowed effort against City prior to the international break. But Slot conceded the responsibility stopped with him and offered no alibis.

“Nobody wants to listen to me now speaking about officiating calls if you are defeated 3-0 at home to Nottingham Forest,” said the Liverpool head coach. “I should look at myself initially and my team, but it demonstrates you how a score can change the flow of a match. Earlier I was just waiting for us to score a goal. Later we hardly generated anything.

“Of course there is a path forward, especially with the talented players we have. Regardless if you triumph or lose when you reflect you are always considering: ‘Where can we do better, where can we make changes?’ 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 victorious but also liable when you are defeated. I can not come up with sufficient reasons for us to have the results we have. That is not acceptable and I am to blame for that.”

Liverpool’s performance fell apart as Slot introduced multiple attacking substitutions when pursuing the match. “It was the identical away at Nottingham Forest last season,” he said. “I took the French defender out and brought on [Diogo] Jota and he found the net immediately to make it 1-1. At that time it was brave, currently it’s probably unwise.”

The Anfield side previously were defeated in back-to-back at Anfield Premier League games by 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, losing 3-0 regardless of which opponent you encounter is a very, very bad outcome. Surprising if you consider the first half-hour of the match. I haven’t seen us creating so many chances in the initial 30 minutes maybe the entire season, and the first time they arrived in our box they found the back of the net.

“It did not happen at City, but in every other game we have been the controlling side and were capable to generate opportunities. Lately it is nearly constantly that we fail to convert our opportunities and the ones we allow go in.”