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Arne Slot declared he had to “look at myself” after the Reds endured a 6th defeat in seven Premier League games on their own turf against Forest and insisted he would discover a way from the title holders' slump.

Forest, fighting against the drop prior to the match, delivered the largest victory at Liverpool's stadium in their history as the Merseyside club fell to an 8th loss in eleven fixtures in every tournament. The British record signing, the Swedish striker, was once more anonymous and Liverpool contended the defender's first goal ought to have been disallowed for comparable grounds to Virgil van Dijk’s disallowed effort against City prior to the international break. But the manager admitted the buck stopped with him and offered no alibis.

“Nobody wishes to listen to me now speaking about officiating calls if you are defeated 3-0 in your own stadium to Forest,” said the Reds' boss. “I ought to examine myself first and my team, but it does show you how a score can alter the flow of a game. Before I was just waiting for us to score a strike. Later we barely generated anything.

“Naturally there is a way out, especially with the talented footballers we have. Regardless if you win or are beaten when you look back you are always thinking: ‘In which areas 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 defeats. You are answerable when you are winning but also responsible when you are defeated. I can not provide enough reasons for us to have the results we have. That is not good enough and I am to blame for that.”

The team's performance unravelled as Slot made multiple offensive substitutions when pursuing the game. “It was the same on the road at Nottingham Forest the previous campaign,” he remarked. “I took the French defender out and put on [Diogo] Jota and he found the net straight away to make it 1-1. Then it was brave, currently it’s probably stupid.”

Liverpool last lost two successive at Anfield Premier League games by Forest in the sixties. The most recent occasion they suffered back-to-back league games by a 3-0 scoreline was in the mid-60s.

The manager said: “It was very bad. Playing on home soil, losing 3-0 regardless of which opponent you face is a very, very bad outcome. Surprising if you look at the opening 30 minutes of the game. I did not witness us creating so many chances in the initial half-hour maybe the entire campaign, and the initial occasion they arrived in our box they found the back of the net.

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