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Arne Slot stated he had to “look at myself” after the Reds suffered a sixth loss in seven Premier League games on their own turf against Forest and insisted he would find a solution from the title holders' slump.

Nottingham Forest, fighting against the drop prior to the match, delivered the largest victory at Liverpool's stadium in their club records as the Merseyside club fell to an 8th loss in 11 matches in every tournament. The British record signing, Alexander Isak, was again anonymous and the home side argued the defender's first goal should have been disallowed for comparable grounds to Virgil van Dijk’s chalked-off goal versus Manchester City before the international break. But Slot admitted the responsibility stopped with him and offered no alibis.

“No one wishes to hear me now talking about refereeing decisions if you are defeated 3-0 at home to Forest,” stated the Liverpool head coach. “I ought to look at my own role initially and my team, but it demonstrates you how a score can change the momentum of a match. Earlier I was just waiting for us to net a goal. Later we barely created any chances.

“Of course there is a way out, especially with the quality footballers we have. Regardless if you triumph or are beaten when you look back you are always considering: ‘In which areas can we improve, in what aspects can we adjust?’ but that is different from doubting yourself.

“I want to stress I am accountable for the current losses. You are answerable when you are winning but also responsible when you are losing. I can not come up with enough reasons for us to have the outcomes we have. That is not good enough and I am responsible for that.”

The team's display unravelled as the coach made multiple attacking substitutions when pursuing the game. “It was the identical away at Nottingham Forest the previous campaign,” he remarked. “I took the French defender off and brought on the Portuguese forward and he scored straight away to equalize at 1-1. At that time it was courageous, now it’s likely stupid.”

The Anfield side last lost two successive home league fixtures against Forest in 1963. The most recent occasion they suffered back-to-back top-flight games by a three-goal margin was in 1965.

Slot said: “It was very bad. Competing on home soil, losing 3-0 regardless of which opponent you face is a terrible outcome. Unexpected if you look at the opening 30 minutes of the game. I haven’t seen us creating so many chances in the initial half-hour perhaps the entire season, and the first time they entered in our penalty area they scored.

“It wasn’t against Manchester City, but in all other game we have been the dominant team and were capable to create chances. Recently it is almost consistently that we fail to convert our chances and the attempts we allow find the net.”