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Liverpool's head coach stated he needed to “examine my own performance” following Liverpool endured a sixth loss in 7 Premier League games at home to Nottingham Forest and insisted he would discover a way from the title holders' slump.

Nottingham Forest, fighting against the drop before kick off, delivered the largest win at Liverpool's stadium in their history as the Merseyside club fell to an eighth loss in 11 matches in every tournament. The British record signing, Alexander Isak, was once more unnoticeable and the home side contended the defender's first goal should have been ruled out for similar reasons to the captain's disallowed effort against Manchester City prior to the international break. But Slot conceded the buck stopped with him and offered no alibis.

“Nobody wishes to listen to me now speaking about refereeing decisions if you lose 3-0 in your own stadium to Nottingham Forest,” stated the Liverpool head coach. “I ought to look at myself first and my team, but it demonstrates you how a score can change the momentum of a game. Before I was just waiting for us to score a goal. Later we hardly created anything.

“Of course there is a way out, particularly with the talented footballers we have. No matter if you win or lose when you look back you are always thinking: ‘Where can we improve, where can we adjust?’ but that is something else from questioning yourself.

“I want to stress I am accountable for the current defeats. You are answerable when you are winning but also responsible when you are losing. I can not provide sufficient reasons for us to have the outcomes we have. That is far from acceptable and I am to blame for that.”

Liverpool’s display fell apart as Slot introduced several offensive changes when pursuing the match. “It was the identical on the road at Nottingham Forest last season,” he remarked. “I took the French defender 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 probably unwise.”

The Anfield side previously were defeated in two successive home league fixtures against Nottingham Forest in 1963. The most recent occasion they suffered consecutive league matches by a three-goal margin was in 1965.

The manager said: “It was extremely poor. Competing on home soil, losing 3-0 no matter which team you face is a terrible outcome. Surprising if you consider the first half-hour of the game. I haven’t seen us producing so many chances in the opening half-hour maybe the entire season, and the first time they arrived in our penalty area they found the back of the net.

“It did not happen at City, but in every other game we have been the controlling team and were able to create opportunities. Recently it is nearly constantly that we miss our opportunities and the attempts we concede find the net.”