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Arne Slot declared he needed to “look at myself” following Liverpool endured a sixth defeat in 7 Premier League matches at home to Forest and insisted he would discover a way from the champions’ slump.

Forest, fighting against the drop before kick off, delivered the biggest victory at Liverpool's stadium in their history as Liverpool fell to an eighth defeat in eleven fixtures in every tournament. The British record signing, Alexander Isak, was again anonymous and the home side contended Murillo’s first goal should have been ruled out for comparable grounds to Virgil van Dijk’s disallowed effort versus City prior to the international break. But Slot conceded the responsibility stopped with him and offered no alibis.

“Nobody wants to listen to me now speaking about officiating calls if you lose 3-0 in your own stadium to Nottingham Forest,” said 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. Earlier I was just waiting for us to net a goal. Afterwards we hardly generated any chances.

“Of course there is a path forward, especially with the quality footballers we have. No matter if you win or are beaten when you look back you are always considering: ‘Where can we do better, in what aspects can we make changes?’ but that is something else from doubting your abilities.

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

The team's display unravelled as the coach introduced multiple attacking changes when chasing the game. “It was the identical away at Nottingham Forest the previous campaign,” he said. “I substituted Ibou [Ibrahima Konaté] out and put on [Diogo] Jota and he found the net immediately to equalize at 1-1. Then it was brave, now it’s probably stupid.”

Liverpool previously were defeated in back-to-back at Anfield Premier League games by Forest in the sixties. The last time they suffered consecutive top-flight matches by a 3-0 margin was in the mid-60s.

The manager commented: “It was extremely poor. Competing on home soil, conceding 3-0 no matter which team you encounter is a very, very bad outcome. Surprising if you consider the opening 30 minutes of the game. I haven’t seen us producing so many chances in the initial 30 minutes perhaps the whole campaign, and the initial occasion they arrived in our penalty area they scored.

“It did not happen against Manchester City, but in every other game we have been the controlling side and were capable to generate chances. Recently it is almost constantly that we miss our opportunities and the ones we concede go in.”