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Liverpool's head coach stated he needed to “look at myself” after the Reds suffered a sixth defeat in 7 Premier League matches on their own turf to Forest and insisted he would discover a solution from the champions’ slump.

Nottingham Forest, in the relegation zone prior to the match, produced the biggest win at Anfield in their history as Liverpool slipped to an 8th loss in eleven fixtures in every tournament. The British record signing, Alexander Isak, was once more unnoticeable and the home side contended Murillo’s opener should have been disallowed for comparable grounds to the captain's disallowed effort against Manchester City before the national team pause. But the manager admitted the buck stopped with him and offered no alibis.

“No one wishes to listen to me now talking about refereeing decisions if you lose 3-0 at home to Forest,” stated the Liverpool head coach. “I ought to examine my own role initially and my team, but it demonstrates you how a score can alter the momentum of a match. Before I was just hoping for us to net a strike. Afterwards we barely generated anything.

“Naturally there is a path forward, especially with the quality footballers we have. Regardless if you triumph or lose when you look back you are always thinking: ‘Where can we improve, in what aspects can we make changes?’ but that is something else from questioning yourself.

“I wish to emphasise I am responsible for the present defeats. You are answerable when you are winning but also responsible when you are losing. I can not provide enough excuses for us to have the outcomes we have. That is far from good enough and I am to blame for that.”

The team's display fell apart as Slot introduced multiple offensive substitutions when chasing the match. “It was the same on the road at Nottingham Forest the previous campaign,” he said. “I substituted the French defender off and brought on the Portuguese forward and he found the net straight away to make it 1-1. Then it was courageous, currently it’s probably stupid.”

The Anfield side previously were defeated in two successive home league games by Nottingham Forest in 1963. The last time they suffered consecutive top-flight games by a 3-0 margin was in the mid-60s.

Slot said: “It was extremely poor. Competing at home, losing 3-0 regardless of which opponent you face is a very, very bad outcome. Surprising if you look at the first half-hour of the match. I did not witness us producing so many chances in the opening half-hour maybe the whole season, and the first time 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 dominant team and were able to generate chances. Lately it is almost consistently that we miss our opportunities and the attempts we allow find the net.”