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Liverpool's head coach declared he needed to “examine my own performance” following Liverpool endured a 6th loss in 7 English top-flight games on their own turf to Forest and insisted he would discover a solution out of the champions’ slump.

Nottingham Forest, in the relegation zone prior to the match, delivered the largest victory at Anfield in their history as Liverpool slipped to an eighth defeat in eleven fixtures in every tournament. The most expensive domestic acquisition, the Swedish striker, was once more unnoticeable and the home side argued the defender's first goal should have been ruled out for similar reasons to the captain's chalked-off goal versus Manchester City before the national team pause. But Slot conceded the responsibility stopped with him and offered no alibis.

“No one wants to hear me now speaking about officiating calls if you lose 3-0 in your own stadium to Forest,” said the Liverpool head coach. “I ought to look at my own role first and my squad, but it demonstrates you how a goal can change the flow of a game. Before I was just hoping for us to score a strike. Afterwards we barely created any chances.

“Naturally there is a way out, especially with the talented footballers we have. Regardless if you triumph or are beaten when you reflect you are always considering: ‘In which areas can we do better, where can we make changes?’ but that is something else from questioning your abilities.

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

The team's display unravelled as Slot made multiple attacking changes when pursuing the match. “It was the identical away at Forest the previous campaign,” he said. “I substituted Ibou [Ibrahima Konaté] off and put on [Diogo] Jota and he found the net immediately to equalize at 1-1. At that time it was brave, now it’s likely stupid.”

The Anfield side previously were defeated in back-to-back home Premier League games against Nottingham Forest in the sixties. The last time they lost back-to-back league games by a 3-0 scoreline was in 1965.

Slot said: “It was very bad. Competing on home soil, conceding 3-0 no matter which opponent you encounter is a very, very bad result. Surprising if you consider the first half-hour of the match. I did not witness us producing so many chances in the opening half-hour perhaps the whole season, and the initial occasion they entered in our box they found the back of the net.

“It wasn’t against Manchester City, but in all other fixture we have been the controlling team and were capable to create opportunities. Lately it is nearly consistently that we fail to convert our opportunities and the ones we concede find the net.”