Slot Offers No Excuses and Pledges to Plot Route From Slump

Liverpool's head coach stated he needed to “look at myself” after the Reds endured a 6th loss in 7 Premier League games on their own turf to Forest and insisted he would discover a way from the champions’ poor run.

Forest, in the relegation zone prior to the match, delivered the biggest victory at Liverpool's stadium in their club records as the Merseyside club fell to an 8th loss in eleven matches in every tournament. The British record signing, the Swedish striker, was again anonymous and Liverpool argued Murillo’s first goal ought to have been disallowed for similar reasons to Virgil van Dijk’s disallowed effort versus City prior to the national team pause. But Slot admitted the buck rested with him and made no excuses.

“Nobody wants to listen to me now talking about refereeing decisions if you lose 3-0 in your own stadium to Forest,” said the Reds' boss. “I should look at my own role initially and my team, but it does show you how a goal can alter the flow of a game. Before I was just hoping for us to score a strike. Afterwards we hardly created any chances.

“Of course there is a way out, especially with the talented players we have. No matter if you win or are beaten when you look back you are always thinking: ‘In which areas can we do better, in what aspects can we make changes?’ but that is different from doubting yourself.

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

The team's performance fell apart as the coach made multiple attacking substitutions when chasing the game. “It was the identical on the road at Nottingham Forest the previous campaign,” he said. “I substituted Ibou [Ibrahima Konaté] off and brought on [Diogo] Jota and he found the net straight away to make it 1-1. At that time it was brave, currently it’s likely stupid.”

The Anfield side last lost back-to-back at Anfield league games against Nottingham Forest in the sixties. The last time they suffered consecutive top-flight matches by a 3-0 margin was in 1965.

The manager commented: “It was extremely poor. Competing at home, losing 3-0 no matter which team you face is a very, very bad result. Unexpected if you look at the opening 30 minutes of the match. I haven’t seen us creating so many chances in the initial half-hour maybe the entire season, and the initial occasion they entered in our penalty area they scored.

“It did not happen at City, but in all other fixture we have been the dominant team and were able to generate opportunities. Recently it is almost consistently that we fail to convert our chances and the ones we concede go in.”