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Arne Slot declared he had to “examine my own performance” after the Reds endured a 6th loss in 7 English top-flight matches on their own turf to Forest and insisted he would discover a solution from the title holders' poor run.

Forest, in the relegation zone prior to the match, produced the largest victory at Anfield in their history as Liverpool slipped to an eighth loss in eleven fixtures in all competitions. The most expensive domestic acquisition, Alexander Isak, was again anonymous and Liverpool contended Murillo’s opener ought to have been ruled out for comparable grounds to the captain's chalked-off goal versus Manchester City before the international break. But the manager admitted the responsibility stopped with him and offered no alibis.

“Nobody wishes to hear me now speaking about refereeing decisions if you lose 3-0 in your own stadium to Forest,” said the Liverpool head coach. “I ought to look at myself first and my team, but it does show you how a goal can alter the momentum of a game. Before I was just hoping for us to net a strike. Later we hardly created any chances.

“Naturally there is a path forward, especially with the talented footballers we have. No matter if you triumph or lose when you reflect you are always thinking: ‘Where can we improve, in what aspects can we make changes?’ but that is something else from questioning your abilities.

“I wish to stress I am responsible for the present defeats. You are answerable when you are victorious but also liable when you are defeated. I can never provide enough excuses for us to have the outcomes we have. That is far from good enough and I am responsible for that.”

The team's performance unravelled as the coach introduced multiple attacking substitutions when pursuing the match. “It was the identical away at Forest last season,” he said. “I took the French defender off and put on [Diogo] Jota and he scored straight away to make it 1-1. Then it was brave, currently it’s probably stupid.”

The Anfield side last lost two successive at Anfield Premier League games against Nottingham Forest in 1963. The most recent occasion they lost back-to-back league matches by a 3-0 margin was in 1965.

The manager said: “It was very bad. Playing at home, losing 3-0 regardless of which team you face is a terrible outcome. Surprising if you look at the opening 30 minutes of the game. I did not witness us creating so much in the opening half-hour perhaps the entire campaign, and the initial occasion they arrived in our box they scored.

“It wasn’t against Manchester City, but in all other fixture we have been the dominant team and were able to create chances. Lately it is almost consistently that we miss our chances and the ones we concede go in.”