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Liverpool's head coach declared he needed to “look at myself” following the Reds suffered a sixth loss in seven Premier League games at home against Forest and affirmed he would discover a way from the title holders' slump.

Forest, fighting against the drop before kick off, delivered the biggest victory at Anfield in their history as Liverpool fell to an 8th defeat in 11 matches in every tournament. The most expensive domestic acquisition, the Swedish striker, was again unnoticeable and Liverpool argued the defender's first goal ought to have been disallowed for similar reasons to the captain's disallowed effort against Manchester City before the international break. But Slot conceded the responsibility stopped with him and offered no alibis.

“Nobody wants to hear me now speaking about refereeing decisions if you lose 3-0 in your own stadium to Nottingham Forest,” said the Liverpool head coach. “I should examine my own role first and my squad, but it does show you how a score can change the momentum of a match. Earlier I was just hoping for us to score a strike. Afterwards we barely created anything.

“Of course there is a path forward, especially with the talented footballers we have. No matter if you win or are beaten when you look back you are always considering: ‘Where can we improve, in what aspects 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 responsible when you are victorious but also liable when you are losing. I can never come up with enough excuses for us to have the outcomes we have. That is not acceptable and I am to blame for that.”

Liverpool’s performance fell apart as the coach made multiple attacking substitutions when chasing the game. “It was the identical away at Forest last season,” he remarked. “I took Ibou [Ibrahima Konaté] out and brought on the Portuguese forward and he found the net straight away to make it 1-1. At that time it was brave, now it’s likely stupid.”

Liverpool last lost two successive at Anfield Premier League fixtures against Nottingham Forest in 1963. The most recent occasion they suffered consecutive league games by a 3-0 margin was in 1965.

Slot commented: “It was extremely poor. Playing at home, losing 3-0 regardless of which team you encounter is a very, very bad result. Unexpected if you consider the first half-hour of the match. I did not witness us producing so many chances in the opening 30 minutes 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 dominant team and were capable to generate chances. Lately it is nearly consistently that we miss our chances and the ones we concede go in.”