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Liverpool's head coach declared he needed to “look at myself” after the Reds endured a sixth loss in seven Premier League matches on their own turf to Forest and affirmed he would find a way from the title holders' poor run.

Nottingham Forest, fighting against the drop before kick off, produced the largest victory at Anfield in their history as Liverpool fell to an eighth defeat in 11 fixtures in every tournament. The most expensive domestic acquisition, Alexander Isak, was once more anonymous and the home side argued the defender's first goal ought to have been ruled out for similar reasons to Virgil van Dijk’s chalked-off goal against City before the national team pause. But Slot admitted the responsibility stopped with him and made no excuses.

“Nobody wants to hear me now speaking about officiating calls if you lose 3-0 in your own stadium to Forest,” said the Liverpool head coach. “I ought to look at myself initially and my team, but it demonstrates you how a goal can alter the momentum of a match. Before I was just waiting for us to score a strike. Later we hardly generated anything.

“Of course there is a path forward, especially with the quality players we have. Regardless if you win or are beaten when you reflect you are always considering: ‘In which areas can we improve, where can we make changes?’ but that is different from doubting your abilities.

“I wish to stress I am accountable for the present defeats. You are responsible when you are victorious but also liable when you are losing. I can never provide enough excuses for us to have the results we have. That is far from acceptable and I am to blame for that.”

The team's display unravelled as the coach introduced multiple offensive changes when pursuing the game. “It was the identical on the road at Nottingham Forest the previous campaign,” he said. “I substituted Ibou [Ibrahima Konaté] out and put on the Portuguese forward and he found the net straight away to equalize at 1-1. At that time it was courageous, currently it’s likely stupid.”

The Anfield side last lost back-to-back home Premier League fixtures by Forest in 1963. The last time they suffered back-to-back league matches by a 3-0 scoreline was in 1965.

Slot said: “It was very bad. Competing on home soil, losing 3-0 regardless of which team you encounter is a very, very bad outcome. Surprising if you look at the first half-hour of the game. I haven’t seen us producing so much in the initial half-hour perhaps the entire season, and the first time they arrived in our penalty area they scored.

“It wasn’t against Manchester City, but in all other fixture we have been the controlling team and were capable to create chances. Lately it is nearly constantly that we miss our opportunities and the ones we concede go in.”