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Arne Slot declared he needed to “look at myself” after Liverpool endured a 6th defeat in 7 English top-flight games on their own turf against Nottingham Forest and insisted he would discover a way out of the title holders' poor run.

Forest, in the relegation zone before kick off, delivered the largest victory at Liverpool's stadium in their club records as Liverpool fell to an eighth loss in 11 fixtures in all competitions. The most expensive domestic acquisition, Alexander Isak, was once more anonymous and the home side argued the defender's opener should have been disallowed for similar reasons to the captain's chalked-off goal against City before the international break. But the manager admitted the buck rested with him and offered no alibis.

“Nobody wants to hear me now talking about officiating calls if you lose 3-0 at home to Nottingham Forest,” said the Liverpool head coach. “I should look at my own role initially and my team, but it does show you how a score can alter the momentum of a match. Before I was just hoping for us to score a goal. Afterwards we hardly generated anything.

“Of course there is a way out, particularly with the quality footballers we have. Regardless if you win or lose when you reflect you are always considering: ‘In which areas can we do better, in what aspects can we make changes?’ but that is something else from questioning yourself.

“I wish to emphasise I am responsible for the current defeats. You are answerable when you are victorious but also liable when you are defeated. I can never provide enough reasons for us to have the outcomes we have. That is far from good enough and I am to blame for that.”

The team's performance unravelled as the coach introduced several attacking substitutions when pursuing the match. “It was the identical away at Forest last season,” he said. “I substituted the French defender out and brought on [Diogo] Jota and he found the net straight away to make it 1-1. Then it was brave, currently it’s likely unwise.”

Liverpool last lost back-to-back home Premier League games against Nottingham Forest in the sixties. The last time they suffered consecutive top-flight games by a three-goal margin was in the mid-60s.

Slot said: “It was very bad. Playing on home soil, losing 3-0 regardless of which team you face is a very, very bad result. Surprising if you consider the first half-hour of the game. I did not witness us producing so much in the opening 30 minutes perhaps the entire season, and the first time they entered in our penalty area they found the back of the net.

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