Liverpool's Manager Provides No Excuses and Pledges to Find Route From Slump

Liverpool's head coach declared he had to “examine my own performance” after the Reds endured a 6th defeat in seven English top-flight games on their own turf to Forest and insisted he would find a way from the champions’ poor run.

Forest, in the relegation zone before kick off, produced the largest win at Anfield in their history as the Merseyside club slipped to an 8th defeat in 11 matches 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 disallowed for comparable grounds to the captain's disallowed effort against Manchester City before the international break. But Slot conceded the responsibility stopped with him and offered no alibis.

“Nobody wants to hear me now talking about officiating calls if you lose 3-0 at home to Nottingham Forest,” stated the Liverpool head coach. “I ought to look at my own role initially and my team, but it does show you how a score can alter the momentum of a game. Earlier I was just hoping for us to net a goal. Afterwards we hardly created anything.

“Naturally there is a way out, particularly with the quality players we have. No matter if you triumph or lose when you look back you are always considering: ‘In which areas can we improve, where can we adjust?’ but that is different from doubting your abilities.

“I want to emphasise I am responsible for the present losses. You are answerable when you are victorious but also liable when you are defeated. I can not come up with sufficient reasons for us to have the results we have. That is not acceptable and I am responsible for that.”

The team's performance fell apart as the coach made several attacking substitutions when chasing the game. “It was the same away at Forest the previous campaign,” he remarked. “I substituted the French defender off and brought on [Diogo] Jota and he found the net immediately to make it 1-1. At that time it was courageous, now it’s probably stupid.”

Liverpool last lost back-to-back home league games against Forest in the sixties. The last time they suffered consecutive league games by a 3-0 margin was in the mid-60s.

Slot said: “It was extremely poor. Playing at home, conceding 3-0 regardless of which team you encounter is a terrible outcome. Unexpected if you consider the opening 30 minutes of the game. I haven’t seen us creating so much in the initial 30 minutes perhaps the entire season, and the first time they arrived in our penalty area they scored.

“It did not happen against Manchester City, but in all other fixture we have been the controlling side and were capable to generate opportunities. Recently it is nearly constantly that we fail to convert our opportunities and the ones we allow find the net.”