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Liverpool's head coach stated he needed to “look at myself” after Liverpool endured a sixth defeat in 7 Premier League matches at home against Forest and insisted he would find a way out of the champions’ slump.

Nottingham Forest, in the relegation zone prior to the match, delivered the largest win at Liverpool's stadium in their history as the Merseyside club fell to an eighth loss in 11 fixtures in every tournament. The most expensive domestic acquisition, Alexander Isak, was once more anonymous and Liverpool contended Murillo’s first goal should have been ruled out for similar reasons to the captain's disallowed effort against Manchester City before the national team pause. But the manager conceded the responsibility rested with him and offered no alibis.

“No one wants to hear me now talking about officiating calls if you are defeated 3-0 in your own stadium to Nottingham Forest,” stated the Reds' boss. “I should look at myself initially and my team, but it does show you how a score can alter the flow of a match. Earlier I was just waiting for us to score a goal. Later we hardly generated any chances.

“Of course there is a way out, particularly with the quality players we have. Regardless 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 want to emphasise I am accountable for the current losses. You are answerable when you are winning but also liable when you are losing. I can never provide enough reasons for us to have the outcomes we have. That is not good enough and I am responsible for that.”

The team's performance fell apart as Slot made several offensive changes when pursuing the match. “It was the identical away at Forest last season,” he said. “I substituted Ibou [Ibrahima Konaté] out and put on [Diogo] Jota and he found the net immediately to equalize at 1-1. At that time it was courageous, now it’s likely stupid.”

Liverpool previously were defeated in back-to-back home league fixtures by 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 at home, losing 3-0 regardless of which opponent you face is a terrible outcome. Unexpected if you look at the first half-hour of the match. I did not witness us producing so much in the initial 30 minutes perhaps the whole season, and the initial occasion they arrived in our penalty area they found the back of the net.

“It did not happen against Manchester City, but in every other game we have been the dominant team and were able to create chances. Recently it is almost consistently that we fail to convert our chances and the attempts we concede find the net.”