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Liverpool's head coach stated he needed to “look at myself” following Liverpool endured a 6th defeat in seven English top-flight matches at home to Forest and affirmed he would discover a solution from the title holders' slump.

Nottingham Forest, in the relegation zone prior to the match, produced the biggest victory at Anfield in their club records as Liverpool slipped to an eighth loss in eleven fixtures in every tournament. The British record signing, the Swedish striker, was again anonymous and the home side contended Murillo’s opener ought to have been ruled out for similar reasons to Virgil van Dijk’s disallowed effort versus City prior to the international break. But the manager conceded the responsibility stopped with him and offered no alibis.

“No one wants to listen to me now speaking about refereeing decisions if you lose 3-0 at home to Forest,” stated the Liverpool head coach. “I should look at myself initially and my team, but it demonstrates you how a goal can alter the flow of a game. Before I was just hoping for us to net a goal. Afterwards we barely created any chances.

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

“I want to emphasise I am accountable for the current losses. You are responsible when you are winning but also responsible when you are defeated. I can not 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 display unravelled as the coach made multiple attacking changes when pursuing the game. “It was the identical away at Forest the previous campaign,” he said. “I took the French defender off and brought on [Diogo] Jota and he scored immediately to equalize at 1-1. Then it was courageous, now it’s probably stupid.”

The Anfield side last lost two successive at Anfield league games by Nottingham Forest in the sixties. The most recent occasion they lost consecutive league games by a 3-0 scoreline was in the mid-60s.

The manager said: “It was extremely poor. Competing on home soil, losing 3-0 no matter which team you encounter is a terrible result. Surprising if you look at the opening 30 minutes of the game. I haven’t seen us producing so much in the opening half-hour perhaps the entire season, and the first time they arrived in our box they found the back of the net.

“It wasn’t against Manchester City, but in all other fixture we have been the controlling team and were capable to generate opportunities. Lately it is nearly constantly that we miss our opportunities and the attempts we concede find the net.”