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Liverpool's head coach declared he had to “look at myself” following Liverpool suffered a 6th loss in 7 English top-flight matches on their own turf against Forest and affirmed he would find a solution from the title holders' slump.

Nottingham Forest, fighting against the drop prior to the match, delivered the largest victory at Liverpool's stadium in their history as the Merseyside club slipped to an 8th defeat in 11 fixtures in every tournament. The most expensive domestic acquisition, the Swedish striker, was once more anonymous and the home side argued Murillo’s opener should have been ruled out for similar reasons to Virgil van Dijk’s chalked-off goal against City before the national team pause. But the manager conceded the responsibility stopped with him and made no excuses.

“No one wants to hear me now talking about refereeing decisions if you lose 3-0 in your own stadium to Forest,” stated the Liverpool head coach. “I ought to look at myself first and my squad, but it does show you how a goal can change the momentum of a game. Before I was just hoping for us to net a goal. Later we hardly generated any chances.

“Naturally there is a way out, especially with the quality players we have. Regardless if you triumph or are beaten when you reflect you are always considering: ‘In which areas can we do better, where can we make changes?’ but that is different from questioning your abilities.

“I want to stress I am responsible for the current defeats. You are responsible when you are winning but also responsible when you are losing. I can never come up with enough excuses for us to have the results we have. That is far from acceptable and I am to blame for that.”

Liverpool’s performance unravelled as the coach introduced multiple attacking substitutions when chasing the game. “It was the identical away at Nottingham Forest last season,” he said. “I took the French defender off and put on the Portuguese forward and he found the net immediately to equalize at 1-1. At that time it was courageous, currently it’s likely unwise.”

Liverpool previously were defeated in back-to-back home Premier League fixtures by Nottingham Forest in 1963. The most recent occasion they lost back-to-back top-flight games by a 3-0 margin was in 1965.

Slot commented: “It was very bad. Playing at home, conceding 3-0 regardless of which team you face is a very, very bad result. Surprising if you consider the first half-hour of the match. I haven’t seen us producing so much in the initial half-hour maybe the entire 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 every other fixture we have been the dominant team and were able to create chances. Recently it is almost consistently that we fail to convert our chances and the attempts we allow find the net.”