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Liverpool's head coach stated he had to “look at myself” after the Reds suffered a sixth loss in 7 English top-flight matches on their own turf to Forest and insisted he would discover a solution from the title holders' slump.

Forest, in the relegation zone prior to the match, delivered the largest victory at Liverpool's stadium in their history as the Merseyside club slipped to an 8th defeat in 11 fixtures in all competitions. The British record signing, Alexander Isak, was once more unnoticeable and the home side contended the defender's first goal ought to have been disallowed for comparable grounds to Virgil van Dijk’s disallowed effort versus Manchester City before the international break. But Slot admitted the responsibility stopped with him and made no excuses.

“No one wants to hear me now speaking about refereeing decisions if you are defeated 3-0 in your own stadium to Forest,” said the Liverpool head coach. “I should examine myself first and my team, but it does show you how a score can change the flow of a game. Earlier I was just waiting for us to net a strike. Afterwards we hardly created anything.

“Of course there is a path forward, particularly with the quality footballers we have. No matter if you triumph or are beaten when you look back you are always thinking: ‘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 defeats. You are answerable when you are victorious but also responsible when you are defeated. I can never come up with enough reasons for us to have the outcomes we have. That is not good enough and I am responsible for that.”

Liverpool’s display unravelled as Slot introduced several attacking substitutions when chasing the match. “It was the identical away at Nottingham Forest last season,” he said. “I substituted Ibou [Ibrahima Konaté] off and put on [Diogo] Jota and he found the net straight away to make it 1-1. At that time it was courageous, currently it’s probably stupid.”

The Anfield side last lost back-to-back at Anfield Premier League games by Forest in the sixties. The last time they lost back-to-back league games by a 3-0 margin was in 1965.

Slot commented: “It was very bad. Playing on home soil, conceding 3-0 regardless of which opponent you face is a terrible outcome. Unexpected if you consider the first half-hour of the match. I haven’t seen us producing so many chances in the opening half-hour maybe the whole campaign, and the first time they arrived in our penalty area they scored.

“It did not happen against Manchester City, but in every other game we have been the dominant side and were able to create chances. Lately it is almost consistently that we fail to convert our opportunities and the ones we concede go in.”