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Arne Slot declared he needed to “look at myself” following the Reds suffered a 6th loss in 7 English top-flight games on their own turf against Nottingham Forest and affirmed he would find a solution from the title holders' poor run.

Nottingham Forest, in the relegation zone before kick off, produced the largest win at Liverpool's stadium in their club records as the Merseyside club slipped to an eighth loss in eleven matches in all competitions. The most expensive domestic acquisition, the Swedish striker, was once more anonymous and Liverpool argued Murillo’s opener ought to have been disallowed for comparable grounds to Virgil van Dijk’s chalked-off goal against City prior to the international break. But Slot conceded the responsibility rested with him and offered no alibis.

“No one wishes to hear me now speaking about officiating calls if you are defeated 3-0 in your own stadium to Nottingham Forest,” stated the Liverpool head coach. “I ought to look at myself first and my team, but it does show you how a score can change the flow of a match. Before I was just hoping for us to score a goal. Afterwards we hardly created any chances.

“Of course there is a way out, particularly with the talented footballers we have. No matter if you win or lose when you look back you are always considering: ‘Where can we improve, where can we make changes?’ but that is something else from questioning your abilities.

“I wish to emphasise I am accountable for the current losses. You are answerable when you are winning but also liable when you are defeated. I can never come up with enough excuses 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 made several offensive substitutions when pursuing the game. “It was the same away at Forest last season,” he said. “I substituted the French defender off and put on the Portuguese forward and he scored straight away to make it 1-1. At that time it was courageous, now it’s probably stupid.”

Liverpool last lost back-to-back at Anfield Premier League games by Forest in 1963. The last time they lost back-to-back top-flight matches by a three-goal margin was in 1965.

Slot commented: “It was extremely poor. Competing on home soil, conceding 3-0 regardless of which team you encounter is a very, very bad outcome. Surprising if you consider the opening 30 minutes of the match. I did not witness us creating so many chances in the opening half-hour maybe the whole season, and the initial occasion they entered in our box they found the back of the net.

“It wasn’t at City, but in all other game we have been the controlling team and were capable to generate chances. Lately it is nearly consistently that we fail to convert our opportunities and the attempts we allow find the net.”