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Liverpool's head coach declared he had to “look at myself” after Liverpool suffered a 6th loss in 7 Premier League games at home to Nottingham Forest and affirmed he would discover a way out of the champions’ poor run.

Nottingham Forest, in the relegation zone prior to the match, produced the biggest victory at Anfield in their history as Liverpool fell to an eighth defeat in 11 matches in every tournament. The British record signing, Alexander Isak, was once more anonymous and Liverpool contended Murillo’s first goal should have been disallowed for similar reasons to Virgil van Dijk’s chalked-off goal versus Manchester City prior to the international break. But Slot admitted the buck stopped with him and offered no alibis.

“No one wants to listen to me now talking about officiating calls if you are defeated 3-0 at home to Nottingham Forest,” said the Liverpool head coach. “I ought to examine my own role initially and my team, but it demonstrates you how a score can alter the momentum of a match. Before I was just waiting for us to score a goal. Later we hardly generated anything.

“Of course there is a path forward, especially with the talented players we have. Regardless if you triumph or are beaten when you look back you are always considering: ‘Where can we improve, where can we make changes?’ but that is something else from doubting yourself.

“I want to stress I am accountable for the present losses. You are answerable when you are victorious but also responsible when you are defeated. I can never come up with sufficient reasons for us to have the results we have. That is far from acceptable and I am to blame for that.”

The team's display fell apart as the coach made multiple attacking changes when chasing the match. “It was the identical on the road at Nottingham Forest last season,” he said. “I substituted Ibou [Ibrahima Konaté] out and brought on the Portuguese forward and he scored straight away to make it 1-1. Then it was brave, now it’s likely stupid.”

Liverpool last lost two successive at Anfield Premier League games against Nottingham Forest in the sixties. The most recent occasion they lost consecutive league matches by a three-goal scoreline was in 1965.

The manager said: “It was extremely poor. Playing on home soil, conceding 3-0 regardless of which opponent 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 much in the opening half-hour perhaps the entire campaign, 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 game we have been the dominant side and were able to generate chances. Lately it is nearly consistently that we fail to convert our opportunities and the ones we allow go in.”