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Arne Slot declared he had to “examine my own performance” following Liverpool suffered a 6th loss in seven Premier League games on their own turf to Forest and insisted he would discover a way from the title holders' poor run.

Forest, fighting against the drop before kick off, produced the largest win at Anfield in their club records as the Merseyside club fell to an eighth defeat in 11 matches in all competitions. The most expensive domestic acquisition, Alexander Isak, was once more unnoticeable and the home side contended Murillo’s first goal should have been disallowed for comparable grounds to Virgil van Dijk’s disallowed effort against City prior to the national team pause. But the manager conceded the responsibility stopped with him and made no excuses.

“Nobody wishes to hear me now speaking about refereeing decisions if you lose 3-0 at home to Forest,” stated the Reds' boss. “I should examine myself initially and my team, but it does show you how a goal can alter the momentum of a game. Earlier I was just hoping for us to score a strike. Afterwards we hardly created anything.

“Naturally there is a path forward, especially with the quality players we have. No matter if you win or lose when you reflect you are always thinking: ‘In which areas can we improve, where can we make changes?’ but that is something else from questioning yourself.

“I wish to stress I am responsible for the present defeats. You are answerable when you are winning but also responsible when you are defeated. I can not 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.”

Liverpool’s performance fell apart as Slot made multiple attacking changes when pursuing the game. “It was the identical on the road at Nottingham Forest the previous campaign,” he remarked. “I took the French defender out and put on [Diogo] Jota and he scored immediately to make it 1-1. Then it was brave, now it’s likely unwise.”

The Anfield side previously were defeated in back-to-back at Anfield Premier League games by Nottingham Forest in 1963. The most recent occasion they lost back-to-back league games by a 3-0 margin was in the mid-60s.

The manager said: “It was very bad. Playing on home soil, conceding 3-0 no matter which team you face is a terrible outcome. Surprising if you look at the first half-hour of the game. I haven’t seen us producing so many chances in the initial half-hour maybe the entire campaign, and the first time they entered in our penalty area they found the back of the net.

“It wasn’t against Manchester City, but in every other game we have been the controlling team and were capable to create opportunities. Lately it is nearly consistently that we miss our chances and the attempts we concede find the net.”