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Arne Slot declared he needed to “look at myself” after the Reds endured a sixth defeat in 7 Premier League matches on their own turf to Forest and affirmed he would discover a way from the title holders' poor run.

Forest, fighting against the drop prior to the match, produced the largest win at Anfield in their history as Liverpool fell to an eighth defeat in eleven fixtures in all competitions. The most expensive domestic acquisition, Alexander Isak, was once more unnoticeable and the home side argued the defender's first goal should have been disallowed for similar reasons to Virgil van Dijk’s disallowed effort versus City before the international break. But Slot conceded the buck rested with him and offered no alibis.

“No one wishes to listen to me now talking about officiating calls if you lose 3-0 at home to Forest,” stated the Liverpool head coach. “I should examine my own role initially and my squad, but it demonstrates you how a goal can alter the momentum of a game. Before I was just waiting for us to net a strike. Afterwards we hardly created any chances.

“Naturally there is a way out, especially with the quality footballers we have. No matter if you triumph or lose when you reflect you are always thinking: ‘Where can we improve, where can we adjust?’ but that is something else from questioning yourself.

“I want to stress I am accountable for the present defeats. 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 results we have. That is not good enough and I am responsible for that.”

Liverpool’s display unravelled as the coach introduced multiple attacking changes when pursuing the game. “It was the same away at Nottingham Forest the previous campaign,” he said. “I took Ibou [Ibrahima Konaté] out and brought on [Diogo] Jota and he found the net immediately to make it 1-1. Then it was courageous, currently it’s likely stupid.”

Liverpool last lost two successive home league fixtures by Forest in 1963. The most recent occasion they suffered back-to-back league matches by a 3-0 scoreline was in 1965.

The manager commented: “It was very bad. Playing on home soil, losing 3-0 regardless of which opponent you encounter is a terrible outcome. Unexpected if you look at the first half-hour of the match. I haven’t seen us creating so much in the opening 30 minutes perhaps the whole season, and the initial occasion they arrived in our penalty area they scored.

“It wasn’t at City, but in all other fixture we have been the dominant team and were capable to generate chances. Lately it is almost consistently that we fail to convert our chances and the attempts we concede go in.”