Slot Provides Zero Justifications and Vows to Plot Way From Malaise

Liverpool's head coach declared he needed to “look at myself” after the Reds suffered a sixth loss in 7 English top-flight matches at home to Nottingham Forest and affirmed he would discover a way from the title holders' poor run.

Forest, fighting against the drop before kick off, produced the largest win at Anfield in their history as the Merseyside club fell to an 8th loss in 11 fixtures in every tournament. The most expensive domestic acquisition, Alexander Isak, was once more unnoticeable and Liverpool contended Murillo’s first goal should have been ruled out for comparable grounds to Virgil van Dijk’s disallowed effort against Manchester City prior to the national team pause. But the manager admitted the responsibility stopped with him and made no excuses.

“Nobody wants to listen to me now talking about refereeing decisions if you lose 3-0 in your own stadium to Forest,” stated the Reds' boss. “I ought to look at myself initially and my squad, but it demonstrates you how a goal can alter the momentum of a match. Before I was just waiting for us to net a strike. Later we hardly created anything.

“Naturally there is a path forward, particularly with the quality footballers we have. Regardless if you triumph or are beaten when you look back you are always thinking: ‘Where can we do better, in what aspects can we adjust?’ but that is something else from questioning your abilities.

“I want to stress I am accountable for the present losses. You are responsible when you are winning but also responsible when you are defeated. I can never come up with enough excuses for us to have the outcomes we have. That is far from acceptable and I am to blame for that.”

Liverpool’s display fell apart as Slot made multiple attacking substitutions when chasing the game. “It was the identical on the road at Forest the previous campaign,” he said. “I substituted the French defender out and brought on [Diogo] Jota and he scored straight away to make it 1-1. Then it was brave, currently it’s likely unwise.”

The Anfield side previously were defeated in two successive at Anfield Premier League fixtures by Nottingham Forest in the sixties. The most recent occasion they suffered consecutive top-flight games by a 3-0 margin was in 1965.

Slot commented: “It was very bad. Competing at home, losing 3-0 regardless of which opponent you face is a terrible result. Unexpected if you look at the opening 30 minutes of the match. I did not witness us creating so much in the initial 30 minutes maybe the whole campaign, and the first time they entered in our penalty area they found the back of the net.

“It did not happen at City, but in every other game we have been the controlling team and were capable to create chances. Lately it is almost constantly that we fail to convert our opportunities and the ones we concede go in.”