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Liverpool's head coach stated he needed to “look at myself” after the Reds endured a sixth defeat in 7 Premier League games on their own turf against Forest and insisted he would find a way out of the champions’ poor run.

Nottingham Forest, fighting against the drop prior to the match, produced the largest win at Anfield in their club records as the Merseyside club fell to an 8th defeat in eleven matches in all competitions. The most expensive domestic acquisition, the Swedish striker, was once more anonymous and Liverpool contended the defender's opener should have been ruled out for comparable grounds to Virgil van Dijk’s disallowed effort versus City prior to the international break. But Slot admitted the buck rested with him and made no excuses.

“Nobody wishes to listen to me now talking about officiating calls if you are defeated 3-0 at home to Forest,” said the Liverpool head coach. “I ought to examine my own role initially and my squad, but it does show you how a goal can alter the flow of a match. Earlier I was just hoping for us to score a goal. Afterwards we barely generated any chances.

“Of course there is a way out, especially with the quality footballers we have. No matter if you triumph or are beaten when you look back you are always considering: ‘Where can we do better, where can we make changes?’ but that is something else from questioning your abilities.

“I wish to stress I am accountable for the present losses. You are responsible when you are victorious but also liable when you are losing. I can never provide sufficient excuses for us to have the results we have. That is not good enough and I am to blame for that.”

The team's performance fell apart as Slot introduced multiple attacking substitutions when pursuing the game. “It was the same on the road at Forest last season,” he said. “I took the French defender out and put on the Portuguese forward and he scored straight away to equalize at 1-1. Then it was brave, currently it’s probably stupid.”

The Anfield side last lost back-to-back at Anfield league games against Nottingham Forest in the sixties. The last time they suffered consecutive top-flight games by a three-goal margin was in 1965.

Slot commented: “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 consider the first half-hour of the game. I haven’t seen us creating so many chances in the initial half-hour perhaps the whole season, and the first time they arrived in our box they found the back of the net.

“It wasn’t at City, but in all other fixture we have been the controlling team and were able to create chances. Recently it is nearly constantly that we fail to convert our chances and the ones we concede find the net.”