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Arne Slot declared he needed to “look at myself” after the Reds suffered a sixth defeat in seven English top-flight games at home against Forest and insisted he would discover a way from the champions’ poor run.

Forest, fighting against the drop prior to the match, delivered the biggest win at Anfield in their club records as Liverpool slipped to an eighth defeat in eleven fixtures in all competitions. The most expensive domestic acquisition, the Swedish striker, was once more anonymous and Liverpool contended the defender's opener ought to have been disallowed for similar reasons to the captain's chalked-off goal versus City before the international break. But the manager conceded the responsibility rested with him and offered no alibis.

“Nobody wishes 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 ought to look at my own role initially and my team, but it demonstrates you how a goal can change the momentum of a game. Before I was just waiting for us to score a strike. Afterwards we barely generated anything.

“Of course there is a path forward, especially with the quality footballers we have. Regardless if you triumph or are beaten when you reflect you are always considering: ‘Where can we improve, where can we adjust?’ but that is something else from questioning yourself.

“I want to emphasise I am accountable for the current defeats. You are answerable when you are winning but also responsible 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 performance unravelled as Slot introduced several attacking substitutions when pursuing the game. “It was the same on the road at Nottingham Forest last season,” he said. “I took the French defender out and brought on [Diogo] Jota and he found the net straight away to equalize at 1-1. Then it was brave, currently it’s probably stupid.”

The Anfield side previously were defeated in back-to-back at Anfield league games against Forest in 1963. The most recent occasion they lost consecutive top-flight games by a 3-0 scoreline was in the mid-60s.

The manager said: “It was extremely poor. Competing at home, losing 3-0 no matter which opponent you encounter is a very, very bad result. Surprising if you look at the opening 30 minutes of the match. I haven’t seen us creating so many chances in the opening half-hour maybe the whole campaign, and the first time they entered in our penalty area they found the back of the net.

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