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Liverpool's head coach declared he had to “examine my own performance” after the Reds suffered a sixth loss in 7 Premier League games on their own turf to Forest and insisted he would discover a solution from the champions’ slump.

Forest, fighting against the drop prior to the match, delivered the largest win at Anfield in their club records as the Merseyside club slipped to an eighth defeat in eleven fixtures in every tournament. The British record signing, the Swedish striker, was again anonymous and the home side contended Murillo’s opener ought to have been disallowed for similar reasons to Virgil van Dijk’s disallowed effort against City before the national team pause. But Slot admitted the responsibility stopped with him and offered no alibis.

“Nobody wishes to listen to me now speaking about refereeing decisions if you are defeated 3-0 at home to Nottingham Forest,” said the Liverpool head coach. “I should look at my own role first and my squad, but it does show you how a score can change the momentum of a match. Earlier I was just hoping for us to score a goal. Later we hardly created any chances.

“Naturally there is a path forward, particularly with the talented footballers we have. Regardless if you win or are beaten when you reflect you are always considering: ‘Where can we improve, in what aspects can we make changes?’ but that is something else from questioning yourself.

“I want to emphasise I am responsible for the present losses. You are answerable when you are winning but also responsible when you are defeated. I can not come up with enough reasons for us to have the outcomes we have. That is far from good enough and I am responsible for that.”

Liverpool’s display fell apart as Slot introduced several offensive changes when pursuing the game. “It was the identical away at Nottingham Forest last season,” he remarked. “I took the French defender off and put on the Portuguese forward and he found the net immediately to make it 1-1. At that time it was brave, now it’s probably unwise.”

Liverpool last lost two successive at Anfield Premier League games by Forest in the sixties. The last time they lost consecutive league matches by a 3-0 margin was in 1965.

The manager commented: “It was very bad. Competing on home soil, conceding 3-0 regardless of which team you face is a very, very bad result. Unexpected if you consider the opening 30 minutes of the match. I did not witness us producing so many chances in the initial 30 minutes maybe the entire season, and the initial occasion they entered in our box they scored.

“It did not happen against Manchester City, but in all other fixture we have been the controlling team and were able to create opportunities. Lately it is nearly constantly that we fail to convert our opportunities and the ones we concede find the net.”