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Liverpool's head coach stated he had to “examine my own performance” following the Reds endured a 6th defeat in seven Premier League matches at home against Nottingham Forest and insisted he would discover a way out of the champions’ slump.

Nottingham Forest, fighting against the drop prior to the match, produced the largest win at Liverpool's stadium in their history as Liverpool fell to an eighth defeat in 11 matches in every tournament. The British record signing, the Swedish striker, was again unnoticeable and Liverpool argued the defender's first goal ought to have been disallowed for similar reasons to the captain's disallowed effort against City before the international break. But Slot conceded the responsibility stopped with him and made no excuses.

“Nobody wishes to listen to me now speaking about officiating calls if you lose 3-0 in your own stadium to Forest,” stated the Liverpool head coach. “I ought to examine myself initially and my team, but it demonstrates you how a score can alter the momentum of a game. Before I was just hoping for us to score a goal. Afterwards we hardly created anything.

“Naturally there is a path forward, especially with the quality footballers we have. No matter if you triumph or lose when you look back you are always considering: ‘In which areas can we improve, where can we make changes?’ but that is something else from questioning your abilities.

“I wish to stress I am responsible for the present defeats. You are answerable when you are victorious but also responsible when you are losing. I can never come up with sufficient reasons for us to have the outcomes we have. That is far from acceptable and I am responsible for that.”

Liverpool’s performance unravelled as Slot made several attacking substitutions when pursuing the game. “It was the identical on the road at Forest the previous campaign,” he said. “I substituted the French defender out and put on [Diogo] Jota and he scored immediately to make it 1-1. At that time it was brave, now it’s probably stupid.”

Liverpool last lost two successive 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.

Slot said: “It was extremely poor. Playing on home soil, losing 3-0 regardless of which team you encounter is a terrible outcome. Unexpected if you look at the first half-hour of the game. I did not witness us producing so much in the initial 30 minutes perhaps the whole campaign, and the first time they entered in our box they scored.

“It did not happen against Manchester City, but in all other fixture we have been the controlling team and were able to create chances. Lately it is almost constantly that we fail to convert our chances and the ones we concede go in.”