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Arne Slot declared he needed to “examine my own performance” following the Reds suffered a 6th loss in seven English top-flight games at home to Forest and insisted he would find a solution out of the champions’ poor run.

Nottingham Forest, fighting against the drop prior to the match, produced the biggest win at Liverpool's stadium in their history as the Merseyside club fell to an 8th loss in 11 matches in every tournament. The British record signing, Alexander Isak, was once more anonymous and Liverpool contended the defender's opener ought to have been disallowed for similar reasons to the captain's chalked-off goal versus City before the national team pause. But Slot conceded the responsibility rested with him and offered no alibis.

“Nobody wants to listen to me now speaking about officiating calls if you lose 3-0 in your own stadium to Forest,” said the Liverpool head coach. “I should look at myself initially and my team, but it demonstrates you how a goal can alter the momentum of a match. Before I was just hoping for us to score a strike. Afterwards we hardly generated anything.

“Of course there is a path forward, especially with the quality players we have. Regardless if you win or are beaten when you reflect you are always thinking: ‘In which areas can we improve, where can we adjust?’ but that is something else from doubting yourself.

“I wish to stress I am accountable for the current defeats. You are responsible when you are victorious but also liable when you are losing. I can not come up with sufficient reasons for us to have the results we have. That is not good enough and I am to blame for that.”

The team's performance fell apart as Slot made multiple attacking substitutions when chasing the match. “It was the same away at Nottingham Forest the previous campaign,” he remarked. “I took the French defender out and put on [Diogo] Jota and he scored straight away to equalize at 1-1. Then it was courageous, currently it’s probably unwise.”

Liverpool last lost back-to-back at Anfield league games against Nottingham Forest in the sixties. The last time they suffered consecutive league matches by a 3-0 margin was in 1965.

The manager said: “It was very bad. Competing on home soil, losing 3-0 regardless of which team you face is a very, very bad outcome. Unexpected if you look at the first half-hour of the game. I did not witness us creating so much in the initial 30 minutes maybe the entire season, and the first time they entered in our box they scored.

“It did not happen against Manchester City, but in all other fixture we have been the controlling side and were able to generate opportunities. Recently it is nearly consistently that we miss our opportunities and the attempts we allow go in.”