Slot Provides No Excuses and Pledges to Plot Route From Malaise

Liverpool's head coach stated he needed to “look at myself” after the Reds suffered a 6th loss in 7 Premier League matches on their own turf to Nottingham Forest and insisted he would discover a solution from the title holders' slump.

Nottingham Forest, fighting against the drop prior to the match, produced the largest victory at Liverpool's stadium in their club records as Liverpool fell to an eighth loss in 11 fixtures in all competitions. The most expensive domestic acquisition, Alexander Isak, was again unnoticeable and the home side contended the defender's opener ought to have been ruled out for similar reasons to the captain's disallowed effort against City before the national team pause. But Slot conceded the buck rested with him and made no excuses.

“Nobody wishes to listen to me now speaking about officiating calls if you lose 3-0 in your own stadium to Forest,” stated the Liverpool head coach. “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 waiting for us to net a strike. Afterwards we hardly created any chances.

“Naturally there is a way out, especially with the talented players we have. No matter if you win or are beaten when you reflect you are always thinking: ‘In which areas can we do better, where can we adjust?’ but that is something else from questioning yourself.

“I want to emphasise I am accountable for the current defeats. You are responsible when you are winning but also responsible when you are losing. I can never 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 display unravelled as the coach introduced multiple attacking substitutions when pursuing the game. “It was the identical on the road at Nottingham Forest the previous campaign,” he said. “I substituted the French defender off and put on [Diogo] Jota and he found the net straight away to make it 1-1. At that time it was brave, now it’s probably stupid.”

Liverpool last lost back-to-back home Premier League fixtures by Forest in the sixties. The most recent occasion they lost consecutive top-flight games by a 3-0 scoreline was in the mid-60s.

Slot said: “It was very bad. Competing on home soil, conceding 3-0 regardless of which team you encounter is a terrible result. Unexpected if you consider the first half-hour of the game. I did not witness us creating so many chances in the initial 30 minutes maybe the entire season, and the first time they entered in our box they found the back of the net.

“It did not happen against Manchester City, but in all other fixture we have been the controlling team and were capable to generate opportunities. Lately it is almost consistently that we miss our opportunities and the attempts we concede find the net.”