Slot Provides Zero Justifications and Pledges to Plot Way Out of Slump

Liverpool's head coach stated he had to “look at myself” after the Reds suffered a 6th defeat in 7 English top-flight matches on their own turf against Forest and affirmed he would discover a way out of the champions’ slump.

Forest, fighting against the drop before kick off, produced the biggest victory at Anfield in their history as the Merseyside club fell to an eighth defeat in 11 matches in every tournament. The most expensive domestic acquisition, the Swedish striker, was once more unnoticeable and the home side contended the defender's first goal should have been ruled out for comparable grounds to Virgil van Dijk’s chalked-off goal against Manchester City prior to the national team pause. But Slot conceded the responsibility stopped with him and made no excuses.

“No one wants to hear me now speaking about refereeing decisions if you are defeated 3-0 at home to Nottingham Forest,” stated the Reds' boss. “I should examine myself initially and my squad, but it does show you how a goal can alter the momentum of a match. Earlier I was just hoping for us to score a strike. Later we barely generated anything.

“Of course there is a path forward, particularly with the quality footballers we have. Regardless if you triumph or are beaten when you look back you are always considering: ‘Where can we do better, in what aspects can we make changes?’ but that is different from questioning yourself.

“I wish to emphasise I am accountable for the current defeats. You are responsible when you are victorious but also responsible when you are defeated. I can never come up with sufficient 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 unravelled as the coach introduced several offensive substitutions when pursuing the game. “It was the same away at Nottingham Forest the previous campaign,” he remarked. “I substituted Ibou [Ibrahima Konaté] out and brought on [Diogo] Jota and he found the net straight away to equalize at 1-1. Then it was courageous, currently it’s probably unwise.”

The Anfield side previously were defeated in back-to-back at Anfield league fixtures against Nottingham Forest in 1963. The last time they lost back-to-back league matches by a 3-0 margin was in the mid-60s.

The manager said: “It was very bad. Competing on home soil, losing 3-0 regardless of which opponent you face is a very, very bad result. Surprising if you look at the first half-hour of the game. I did not witness us producing so much in the opening 30 minutes perhaps the whole season, and the first time they arrived in our penalty area they found the back of the net.

“It wasn’t against Manchester City, but in all other fixture we have been the dominant side and were capable to generate chances. Recently it is almost consistently that we fail to convert our chances and the ones we allow find the net.”