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Liverpool's head coach declared he needed to “look at myself” after Liverpool endured a sixth loss in seven English top-flight games at home against Forest and insisted he would find a way from the champions’ poor run.

Forest, fighting against the drop prior to the match, produced the largest victory at Anfield in their history as Liverpool fell to an eighth loss in eleven matches in all competitions. The British record signing, the Swedish striker, was once more unnoticeable and Liverpool argued the defender's first goal should have been ruled out for similar reasons to the captain's chalked-off goal versus City prior to the national team pause. But the manager conceded the buck rested with him and offered no alibis.

“No one wishes to hear me now speaking about officiating calls if you are defeated 3-0 in your own stadium to Forest,” said the Reds' boss. “I should examine my own role initially and my squad, but it demonstrates you how a goal can alter the flow of a game. Before I was just hoping for us to score a goal. Later we hardly generated any chances.

“Of course there is a way out, especially with the quality footballers we have. Regardless if you win or are beaten when you reflect you are always thinking: ‘In which areas can we do better, in what aspects can we adjust?’ but that is something else from doubting yourself.

“I want to stress I am responsible for the present losses. You are responsible when you are winning but also responsible when you are defeated. I can never provide sufficient excuses for us to have the results we have. That is far from good enough and I am responsible for that.”

Liverpool’s performance unravelled as Slot introduced multiple attacking changes when chasing the match. “It was the identical on the road at Nottingham Forest the previous campaign,” he said. “I took the French defender out and brought on the Portuguese forward and he found the net straight away to make it 1-1. At that time it was brave, currently it’s likely unwise.”

The Anfield side last lost two successive home league fixtures by Forest in 1963. The most recent occasion they lost back-to-back league matches by a 3-0 scoreline was in 1965.

The manager said: “It was very bad. Competing on home soil, losing 3-0 regardless of which team you encounter is a very, very bad result. Surprising if you look at the first half-hour of the match. I haven’t seen us producing so many chances in the opening half-hour maybe the entire campaign, and the initial occasion they arrived in our penalty area they scored.

“It wasn’t at City, but in every other game we have been the dominant side and were capable to create opportunities. Lately it is almost consistently that we fail to convert our chances and the ones we allow go in.”