Slot Provides No Excuses and Vows to Plot Route From Malaise

Arne Slot stated he had to “look at myself” following Liverpool suffered a 6th loss in seven Premier League games at home to Nottingham Forest and insisted he would discover a solution from the title holders' poor run.

Forest, fighting against the drop before kick off, produced the biggest victory at Liverpool's stadium in their club records as Liverpool fell to an 8th defeat in eleven matches in every tournament. The British record signing, Alexander Isak, was once more anonymous and the home side argued Murillo’s opener ought to have been disallowed for comparable grounds to Virgil van Dijk’s chalked-off goal versus Manchester City before the international break. But the manager conceded the responsibility stopped with him and made no excuses.

“No one wishes to hear me now speaking about officiating calls if you are defeated 3-0 at home to Nottingham Forest,” said the Reds' boss. “I should look at my own role first and my team, but it demonstrates you how a goal can alter the flow of a game. Earlier I was just waiting for us to net a strike. Later we hardly generated any chances.

“Naturally there is a way out, especially with the talented players we have. No matter if you win or lose when you reflect you are always thinking: ‘Where can we do better, in what aspects can we make changes?’ but that is something else from questioning your abilities.

“I wish to stress I am responsible for the present losses. You are answerable when you are victorious but also liable when you are losing. I can not come up with enough excuses for us to have the outcomes we have. That is not good enough and I am to blame for that.”

The team's performance unravelled as the coach introduced several attacking substitutions when chasing the game. “It was the same on the road at Forest the previous campaign,” he remarked. “I took Ibou [Ibrahima Konaté] off and brought on the Portuguese forward and he found the net immediately to equalize at 1-1. At that time it was brave, currently it’s probably stupid.”

Liverpool previously were defeated in back-to-back home league games against Forest in 1963. The most recent occasion they lost back-to-back league games by a 3-0 scoreline was in 1965.

Slot said: “It was very bad. Playing at home, losing 3-0 no matter which team you encounter is a terrible outcome. Surprising if you look at the opening 30 minutes of the match. I did not witness us creating so many chances in the opening 30 minutes perhaps the whole campaign, and the first time they arrived in our box they scored.

“It wasn’t against Manchester City, but in every other game we have been the controlling team and were capable to generate chances. Lately it is almost consistently that we fail to convert our opportunities and the ones we concede go in.”