Slot Provides No Excuses and Vows to Find Route Out of Malaise

Liverpool's head coach stated he had to “look at myself” following Liverpool suffered a sixth defeat in seven English top-flight games on their own turf against Forest and affirmed he would find a way out of the champions’ slump.

Forest, in the relegation zone before kick off, produced the largest win at Liverpool's stadium in their history as Liverpool fell to an eighth defeat in 11 matches in all competitions. The British record signing, the Swedish striker, was again anonymous and the home side contended Murillo’s opener should have been disallowed for comparable grounds to Virgil van Dijk’s chalked-off goal against City before the national team pause. But Slot conceded the buck rested with him and offered no alibis.

“No one wants to listen to me now speaking about officiating calls if you lose 3-0 in your own stadium to Nottingham Forest,” stated the Reds' boss. “I should examine my own role initially and my team, but it demonstrates you how a score can change the flow of a match. Before I was just waiting for us to score a strike. Later we hardly created anything.

“Of course there is a way out, particularly with the talented players we have. Regardless if you win or lose when you reflect you are always thinking: ‘In which areas can we improve, where can we adjust?’ but that is different from questioning yourself.

“I wish to emphasise I am responsible for the current losses. You are responsible when you are victorious but also liable when you are losing. I can never come up with sufficient reasons for us to have the results we have. That is far from acceptable and I am to blame for that.”

Liverpool’s display fell apart as Slot introduced several attacking changes when chasing the game. “It was the identical on the road at Nottingham Forest the previous campaign,” he said. “I took the French defender out and put on [Diogo] Jota and he found the net straight away to equalize at 1-1. Then it was courageous, now it’s likely stupid.”

Liverpool previously were defeated in back-to-back at Anfield league games by Nottingham Forest in 1963. The last time they lost back-to-back top-flight matches by a three-goal scoreline was in 1965.

The manager said: “It was extremely poor. Playing on home soil, conceding 3-0 regardless of which team you encounter is a terrible outcome. Unexpected if you look at the opening 30 minutes of the match. I did not witness us producing so much in the opening half-hour maybe the entire campaign, and the first time they entered 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 team and were able to generate opportunities. Lately it is almost consistently that we fail to convert our chances and the ones we allow find the net.”