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Liverpool's head coach stated he needed to “look at myself” following Liverpool endured a 6th defeat in seven English top-flight matches on their own turf to Nottingham Forest and insisted he would find a way out of the champions’ slump.

Forest, in the relegation zone before kick off, produced the biggest victory at Anfield in their club records as the Merseyside club slipped to an eighth loss in eleven fixtures in all competitions. The British record signing, the Swedish striker, was once more unnoticeable and Liverpool contended the defender's opener should have been disallowed for comparable grounds to Virgil van Dijk’s chalked-off goal versus City prior to the national team pause. But Slot conceded the buck stopped with him and offered no alibis.

“No one wishes to listen to me now talking about officiating calls if you are defeated 3-0 at home to Forest,” stated the Reds' boss. “I should examine my own role initially and my squad, but it demonstrates you how a goal can alter the flow of a match. Earlier I was just waiting for us to score a goal. Afterwards we barely generated anything.

“Naturally there is a way out, particularly with the talented players we have. Regardless if you win or lose when you reflect you are always considering: ‘Where can we do better, where can we make changes?’ but that is different from doubting your abilities.

“I want to emphasise I am accountable for the current defeats. You are responsible when you are winning but also responsible when you are defeated. I can never come up with enough reasons for us to have the outcomes we have. That is not good enough and I am to blame for that.”

The team's performance fell apart as Slot made multiple offensive changes when chasing the match. “It was the same on the road at Forest last season,” he said. “I took Ibou [Ibrahima Konaté] out and put on [Diogo] Jota and he found the net immediately to make it 1-1. At that time it was courageous, currently it’s probably stupid.”

The Anfield side previously were defeated in two successive home league games against Nottingham Forest in the sixties. The most recent occasion they lost consecutive top-flight matches by a three-goal margin was in the mid-60s.

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

“It wasn’t at City, but in all other fixture we have been the dominant side and were able to generate chances. Lately it is nearly consistently that we fail to convert our chances and the ones we allow find the net.”