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Arne Slot stated he had to “examine my own performance” after the Reds endured a sixth loss in 7 English top-flight matches at home against Forest and affirmed he would discover a solution out of the champions’ slump.

Nottingham Forest, fighting against the drop prior to the match, produced the biggest win at Liverpool's stadium in their history as the Merseyside club fell to an 8th loss in eleven fixtures in all competitions. The British record signing, Alexander Isak, was again anonymous and Liverpool contended Murillo’s first goal ought to have been disallowed for similar reasons to the captain's disallowed effort versus City prior to the international break. But Slot conceded the responsibility rested with him and offered no alibis.

“No one wishes to listen to me now speaking about officiating calls if you are defeated 3-0 in your own stadium to Nottingham Forest,” said the Reds' boss. “I ought to look at my own role first and my squad, but it does show you how a score can change the flow of a game. Before I was just hoping for us to net a goal. Afterwards we barely created anything.

“Naturally there is a path forward, particularly with the quality footballers we have. No matter if you win or lose when you look back you are always considering: ‘Where 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 losses. You are responsible when you are victorious but also responsible when you are defeated. I can never come up with enough reasons for us to have the results we have. That is not good enough and I am to blame for that.”

Liverpool’s display fell apart as Slot introduced multiple attacking changes when pursuing the match. “It was the identical away at Forest the previous campaign,” he remarked. “I substituted the French defender out and put on [Diogo] Jota and he scored immediately to equalize at 1-1. At that time it was courageous, now it’s likely stupid.”

Liverpool last lost back-to-back home Premier League fixtures against Forest in 1963. The last time they lost consecutive league games by a three-goal scoreline was in the mid-60s.

Slot commented: “It was very bad. Competing on home soil, conceding 3-0 regardless of which team you face is a very, very bad outcome. Unexpected if you consider the opening 30 minutes of the match. I haven’t seen us creating so much in the initial half-hour perhaps the whole campaign, and the initial occasion they arrived in our box they found the back of the net.

“It wasn’t at City, but in every other fixture we have been the dominant team and were capable to generate opportunities. Recently it is almost consistently that we miss our opportunities and the ones we allow find the net.”