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Liverpool's head coach stated he had to “examine my own performance” following Liverpool endured a sixth defeat in 7 English top-flight matches on their own turf to Nottingham Forest and affirmed he would discover a way from the title holders' poor run.

Forest, fighting against the drop before kick off, delivered the biggest victory at Liverpool's stadium in their club records as Liverpool slipped to an eighth defeat in 11 matches in every tournament. The British record signing, Alexander Isak, was again anonymous and Liverpool argued Murillo’s opener should have been ruled out for comparable grounds to Virgil van Dijk’s disallowed effort versus City prior to the international break. But the manager conceded the responsibility stopped with him and made no excuses.

“Nobody wishes to listen to me now speaking about refereeing decisions if you are defeated 3-0 at home to Nottingham Forest,” stated the Reds' boss. “I ought to examine myself initially and my squad, but it demonstrates you how a score can alter the flow of a match. Before I was just waiting for us to net a strike. Afterwards we hardly generated anything.

“Naturally there is a path forward, particularly with the talented footballers we have. No matter if you triumph or are beaten when you look back you are always thinking: ‘Where can we do better, where can we adjust?’ but that is something else from questioning your abilities.

“I wish to stress I am accountable for the current defeats. You are answerable when you are victorious but also responsible when you are defeated. I can not come up with sufficient excuses for us to have the outcomes we have. That is not good enough and I am responsible for that.”

The team's performance fell apart as the coach introduced several offensive substitutions when pursuing the match. “It was the identical away at Forest the previous campaign,” he said. “I took Ibou [Ibrahima Konaté] out and put on [Diogo] Jota and he found the net straight away to make it 1-1. Then it was brave, currently it’s likely unwise.”

The Anfield side last lost two successive home league games against Forest in 1963. The most recent occasion they suffered consecutive league games by a 3-0 margin was in 1965.

The manager commented: “It was very bad. Competing on home soil, losing 3-0 regardless of which team you face is a terrible result. Unexpected if you look at the opening 30 minutes of the match. I did not witness us producing so many chances in the initial half-hour maybe the whole campaign, and the initial occasion they arrived in our box they scored.

“It wasn’t against Manchester City, but in all other game we have been the dominant team and were capable to create chances. Lately it is nearly constantly that we miss our opportunities and the attempts we concede go in.”