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Liverpool's head coach declared he had to “look at myself” after the Reds suffered a 6th defeat in seven Premier League matches on their own turf to Forest and insisted he would find a way out of the champions’ slump.

Nottingham Forest, fighting against the drop before kick off, delivered the biggest win at Anfield in their club records as Liverpool slipped to an 8th defeat in eleven matches in every tournament. The British record signing, the Swedish striker, was again anonymous and Liverpool contended Murillo’s opener ought to have been disallowed for comparable grounds to Virgil van Dijk’s chalked-off goal against City before the national team pause. But the manager conceded the responsibility stopped with him and offered no alibis.

“No one wishes to hear me now speaking about officiating calls if you are defeated 3-0 at home to Forest,” said the Liverpool head coach. “I should look at myself initially and my team, but it does show you how a score can alter the flow of a match. Before I was just hoping for us to score a strike. Later we hardly created anything.

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

“I want to emphasise I am accountable for the current defeats. You are responsible when you are winning but also responsible when you are losing. I can never come up with enough reasons for us to have the outcomes we have. That is not good enough and I am to blame for that.”

The team's performance unravelled as Slot introduced multiple attacking substitutions when chasing the game. “It was the same away at Nottingham Forest last season,” he said. “I took the French defender off and put on [Diogo] Jota and he scored immediately to equalize at 1-1. At that time it was courageous, currently it’s probably stupid.”

The Anfield side previously were defeated in back-to-back at Anfield league games against Nottingham Forest in 1963. The most recent occasion they lost consecutive league matches by a three-goal scoreline was in the mid-60s.

Slot commented: “It was extremely poor. Playing at home, losing 3-0 regardless of which team you face is a terrible outcome. Surprising if you consider the first half-hour of the match. I haven’t seen us creating so much in the initial half-hour maybe the whole campaign, and the first time 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 able to generate chances. Recently it is nearly constantly that we fail to convert our chances and the ones we concede go in.”