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Arne Slot stated he had to “examine my own performance” following the Reds endured a sixth defeat in seven English top-flight matches at home against Nottingham Forest and insisted he would discover a way out of the champions’ slump.

Nottingham Forest, in the relegation zone prior to the match, delivered the biggest victory at Anfield in their club records as the Merseyside club slipped to an 8th loss in eleven matches in all competitions. The most expensive domestic acquisition, Alexander Isak, was again anonymous and the home side contended the defender's opener ought to have been disallowed for comparable grounds to Virgil van Dijk’s chalked-off goal versus Manchester City before the international break. But Slot admitted the buck stopped with him and made no excuses.

“Nobody wishes to listen to me now speaking about officiating calls if you lose 3-0 in your own stadium to Forest,” stated the Reds' boss. “I ought to examine myself first and my team, but it does show you how a score can change the momentum of a match. Earlier I was just hoping for us to net a strike. Later we barely generated anything.

“Of course there is a way out, especially with the talented footballers we have. Regardless if you win or are beaten when you look back you are always considering: ‘Where can we do better, in what aspects can we adjust?’ but that is something else from questioning yourself.

“I want to emphasise I am responsible for the present defeats. You are answerable when you are victorious but also liable when you are losing. I can never come up with sufficient excuses for us to have the results we have. That is far from good enough and I am to blame for that.”

Liverpool’s display fell apart as the coach introduced multiple offensive changes when chasing the game. “It was the same on the road at Nottingham Forest the previous campaign,” he said. “I substituted Ibou [Ibrahima Konaté] out and brought on [Diogo] Jota and he found the net straight away to make it 1-1. Then it was brave, currently it’s probably unwise.”

Liverpool previously were defeated in two successive home league fixtures by Nottingham Forest in the sixties. The most recent occasion they suffered back-to-back league games by a three-goal margin was in 1965.

The manager commented: “It was extremely poor. Playing on home soil, losing 3-0 regardless of which team you face is a terrible result. Unexpected if you look at the opening 30 minutes of the game. I haven’t seen us producing so many chances in the initial half-hour maybe the entire season, and the first time they entered in our box they found the back of the net.

“It did not happen at City, but in every other fixture we have been the controlling team and were capable to create chances. Recently it is nearly consistently that we fail to convert our chances and the ones we concede find the net.”