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Liverpool's head coach declared he had to “look at myself” following Liverpool endured a sixth loss in 7 Premier League games at home to Forest and insisted he would find a way out of the champions’ slump.

Nottingham Forest, fighting against the drop before kick off, produced the biggest win at Anfield in their club records as the Merseyside club slipped to an eighth loss in eleven fixtures in every tournament. The most expensive domestic acquisition, the Swedish striker, was once more anonymous and the home side contended Murillo’s opener should have been disallowed for comparable grounds to Virgil van Dijk’s disallowed effort against City before the national team pause. But Slot conceded the responsibility stopped with him and made no excuses.

“Nobody wants to listen to me now speaking about officiating calls if you are defeated 3-0 in your own stadium to Nottingham Forest,” said the Reds' boss. “I should look at my own role first and my team, but it demonstrates you how a goal can alter the flow of a match. Earlier I was just hoping for us to net a strike. Later we hardly created any chances.

“Of course there is a path forward, especially with the talented players we have. No matter 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 different from questioning yourself.

“I want to stress I am accountable for the current defeats. You are responsible when you are victorious but also liable when you are defeated. I can never come up with sufficient reasons for us to have the results we have. That is not acceptable and I am responsible for that.”

The team's performance fell apart as Slot made multiple offensive changes when chasing the game. “It was the identical on the road at Forest last season,” he said. “I substituted the French defender off and put on the Portuguese forward and he scored immediately to make it 1-1. Then it was brave, currently it’s probably unwise.”

The Anfield side last lost two successive home league games by Nottingham Forest in the sixties. The most recent occasion they suffered back-to-back top-flight matches by a 3-0 margin was in 1965.

Slot commented: “It was very bad. Competing on home soil, losing 3-0 no matter which opponent you encounter is a terrible result. Unexpected if you look at the first half-hour of the game. I haven’t seen us producing so many chances in the opening 30 minutes perhaps the whole season, and the initial occasion they arrived in our box they found the back of the net.

“It did not happen against Manchester City, but in every other game we have been the controlling side and were able to create chances. Lately it is almost constantly that we fail to convert our chances and the attempts we allow go in.”