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Liverpool's head coach declared he needed to “examine my own performance” following Liverpool suffered a 6th defeat in seven Premier League games at home to Nottingham Forest and affirmed he would discover a solution from the champions’ slump.

Forest, fighting against the drop prior to the match, delivered the biggest victory at Anfield in their history as the Merseyside club fell to an 8th loss in eleven matches in every tournament. The most expensive domestic acquisition, the Swedish striker, was again unnoticeable and the home side argued the defender's first goal ought to have been ruled out for similar reasons to Virgil van Dijk’s chalked-off goal against City prior to the international break. 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 lose 3-0 in your own stadium to Forest,” said the Reds' boss. “I ought to look at myself initially and my squad, but it demonstrates you how a score can alter the momentum of a match. Before I was just hoping for us to net a goal. Afterwards we hardly created any chances.

“Of course there is a way out, particularly with the talented players we have. No matter if you triumph or lose when you look back you are always thinking: ‘Where can we improve, in what aspects can we make changes?’ but that is different from questioning yourself.

“I wish to stress I am responsible for the present defeats. You are answerable when you are victorious but also liable when you are defeated. I can not provide sufficient excuses for us to have the results we have. That is not acceptable and I am responsible for that.”

Liverpool’s display fell apart as the coach made several offensive changes when pursuing the game. “It was the identical away at Forest the previous campaign,” he remarked. “I took the French defender off and put on the Portuguese forward and he scored straight away to make it 1-1. At that time it was courageous, currently it’s probably stupid.”

The Anfield side previously were defeated in two successive at Anfield league fixtures against Nottingham Forest in the sixties. The most recent occasion they suffered consecutive league games 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 team you encounter is a very, very bad outcome. Unexpected if you look at the opening 30 minutes of the game. I haven’t seen us creating so many chances in the opening 30 minutes maybe the entire season, and the initial occasion they arrived in our penalty area they scored.

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