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Liverpool's head coach declared he had to “look at myself” after Liverpool suffered a sixth loss in 7 Premier League matches on their own turf against Nottingham Forest and insisted he would find a solution from the title holders' slump.

Forest, fighting against the drop before kick off, delivered the largest win at Anfield in their club records as Liverpool fell to an eighth loss in eleven matches in every tournament. The most expensive domestic acquisition, the Swedish striker, was again anonymous and the home side argued the defender's first goal ought to have been disallowed for comparable grounds to Virgil van Dijk’s disallowed effort versus Manchester City prior to the national team pause. But Slot admitted the responsibility stopped with him and made no excuses.

“Nobody wants to hear me now talking about officiating calls if you are defeated 3-0 in your own stadium to Forest,” stated the Liverpool head coach. “I should look at my own role initially and my squad, but it does show you how a score can change the flow of a match. Earlier I was just hoping for us to score a strike. Later we hardly created any chances.

“Naturally there is a way out, particularly with the quality footballers we have. No matter if you triumph or lose when you look back you are always thinking: ‘In which areas can we do better, where can we adjust?’ but that is something else from doubting yourself.

“I want to emphasise I am responsible for the current losses. You are responsible when you are victorious but also responsible when you are defeated. I can never come up with enough excuses for us to have the results we have. That is far from acceptable and I am to blame for that.”

Liverpool’s performance unravelled as Slot introduced several attacking substitutions when pursuing the game. “It was the same away at Forest the previous campaign,” he remarked. “I substituted the French defender off and put on [Diogo] Jota and he found the net straight away to make it 1-1. Then it was brave, currently it’s probably stupid.”

Liverpool last lost two successive at Anfield Premier League fixtures against Forest in 1963. The last time they lost back-to-back league matches by a three-goal scoreline was in 1965.

Slot said: “It was extremely poor. Competing at home, conceding 3-0 regardless of which team you face is a terrible outcome. Surprising if you look at the opening 30 minutes of the game. I haven’t seen us producing so many chances in the initial 30 minutes maybe the entire campaign, and the first time they entered in our penalty area they scored.

“It did not happen against Manchester City, but in every other fixture we have been the controlling team and were capable to create opportunities. Lately it is nearly constantly that we miss our opportunities and the attempts we concede go in.”