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Liverpool's head coach stated he had to “look at myself” following Liverpool endured a 6th loss in seven Premier League matches at home to Forest and insisted he would discover a solution out of the champions’ poor run.

Nottingham Forest, in the relegation zone prior to the match, produced the largest victory at Liverpool's stadium in their history as the Merseyside club fell to an 8th loss in eleven matches in every tournament. The British record signing, Alexander Isak, was again anonymous and Liverpool argued the defender's opener ought to have been disallowed for comparable grounds to Virgil van Dijk’s disallowed effort versus City before the national team pause. But the manager conceded the responsibility stopped with him and made no excuses.

“No one wants to hear me now talking about refereeing decisions if you are defeated 3-0 in your own stadium to Forest,” stated the Reds' boss. “I ought to examine my own role first and my team, but it demonstrates you how a goal can alter the flow of a match. Earlier I was just waiting for us to score a strike. Afterwards we hardly generated anything.

“Naturally there is a path forward, particularly with the talented footballers we have. Regardless if you triumph or lose when you look back you are always considering: ‘In which areas can we improve, in what aspects can we adjust?’ but that is different from questioning yourself.

“I wish to emphasise I am responsible for the present defeats. You are answerable when you are winning but also responsible when you are losing. I can never come up with sufficient reasons for us to have the outcomes we have. That is far from good enough and I am responsible for that.”

Liverpool’s performance fell apart as the coach made several attacking changes when chasing the game. “It was the same on the road at Forest the previous campaign,” he said. “I took the French defender off and brought on [Diogo] Jota and he scored straight away to equalize at 1-1. At that time it was courageous, currently it’s likely unwise.”

Liverpool previously were defeated in two successive home league fixtures by Nottingham Forest in 1963. The last time they lost back-to-back top-flight games by a three-goal scoreline was in 1965.

The manager said: “It was extremely poor. Playing at home, conceding 3-0 regardless of which team you encounter is a very, very bad result. Unexpected if you look at the opening 30 minutes 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 arrived in our box they found the back of the net.

“It did not happen at City, but in all other fixture we have been the controlling team and were able to create opportunities. Lately it is nearly consistently that we fail to convert our chances and the ones we concede go in.”