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Arne Slot stated he needed to “look at myself” following Liverpool suffered a sixth loss in seven English top-flight games at home against Nottingham Forest and insisted he would discover a way from the title holders' slump.

Nottingham Forest, in the relegation zone before kick off, delivered the biggest victory at Liverpool's stadium in their history as Liverpool slipped to an eighth loss in 11 matches in all competitions. The British record signing, Alexander Isak, was once more anonymous and Liverpool argued the defender's first goal ought to have been ruled out for comparable grounds to Virgil van Dijk’s chalked-off goal versus City prior to the international break. But the manager admitted the buck stopped with him and made no excuses.

“No one wishes to listen to me now talking about refereeing decisions if you are defeated 3-0 at home to Forest,” stated the Liverpool head coach. “I should examine myself initially and my squad, but it demonstrates you how a score can change the flow of a game. Earlier I was just waiting for us to score a goal. Later we hardly generated any chances.

“Naturally 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 thinking: ‘Where can we do better, where can we make changes?’ but that is different from questioning your abilities.

“I wish to stress I am responsible for the current losses. You are answerable when you are winning but also liable when you are losing. I can never come up with enough reasons for us to have the results we have. That is far from good enough and I am responsible for that.”

The team's performance unravelled as the coach made several offensive substitutions when pursuing the match. “It was the identical away at Forest last season,” he remarked. “I took Ibou [Ibrahima Konaté] out and brought on the Portuguese forward and he found the net straight away to equalize at 1-1. At that time it was courageous, now it’s likely stupid.”

The Anfield side previously were defeated in two successive at Anfield league fixtures against Forest in the sixties. The last time they suffered consecutive league matches by a three-goal scoreline was in the mid-60s.

Slot said: “It was very bad. Playing on home soil, losing 3-0 no matter which team you encounter is a very, very bad outcome. Unexpected if you look at the first half-hour of the game. I haven’t seen us creating so much in the initial half-hour maybe the whole campaign, and the first time they arrived in our penalty area they scored.

“It did not happen against Manchester City, but in all other fixture we have been the dominant team and were capable to create chances. Lately it is almost constantly that we fail to convert our chances and the attempts we concede go in.”