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Liverpool's head coach stated he needed to “examine my own performance” after Liverpool endured a 6th defeat in 7 English top-flight matches at home to Forest and insisted he would discover a solution out of the title holders' poor run.

Nottingham Forest, fighting against the drop prior to the match, delivered the largest win at Liverpool's stadium in their club records as Liverpool fell to an 8th defeat in eleven matches in all competitions. The British record signing, Alexander Isak, was again unnoticeable and the home side argued the defender's opener should have been disallowed for comparable grounds to Virgil van Dijk’s disallowed effort versus Manchester City prior to the national team pause. But Slot conceded the responsibility rested with him and made no excuses.

“No one wishes to hear me now speaking about officiating calls if you are defeated 3-0 in your own stadium to Nottingham Forest,” said the Reds' boss. “I ought to examine myself initially and my squad, but it does show you how a score can alter the momentum of a match. Earlier I was just waiting for us to net a strike. Afterwards we hardly created any chances.

“Naturally there is a path forward, especially with the quality players we have. Regardless if you win or lose when you look back you are always thinking: ‘Where can we do better, in what aspects can we make changes?’ but that is something else from doubting your abilities.

“I wish to emphasise I am responsible for the present defeats. You are answerable when you are winning but also responsible when you are defeated. I can never provide sufficient excuses for us to have the outcomes we have. That is not acceptable and I am responsible for that.”

The team's performance fell apart as Slot made multiple attacking substitutions when pursuing the game. “It was the same away at Nottingham Forest last season,” he said. “I substituted the French defender out and put on the Portuguese forward and he scored immediately to equalize at 1-1. Then it was courageous, currently it’s probably stupid.”

Liverpool previously were defeated in back-to-back at Anfield Premier League fixtures by Nottingham Forest in 1963. The last time they lost consecutive top-flight matches by a 3-0 scoreline was in the mid-60s.

The manager said: “It was very bad. Playing at home, losing 3-0 regardless of which team you encounter is a very, very bad outcome. Surprising if you consider the first half-hour of the game. I haven’t seen us creating so many chances in the initial half-hour maybe the whole campaign, and the first time they entered in our penalty area they scored.

“It did not happen at City, but in every other game we have been the controlling team and were capable to create chances. Recently it is almost consistently that we miss our chances and the ones we concede go in.”