Slot Offers No Excuses and Pledges to Find Way Out of Slump

Arne Slot stated he had to “look at myself” after Liverpool endured a 6th loss in 7 Premier League matches on their own turf to Forest and insisted he would discover a solution out of the champions’ slump.

Forest, fighting against the drop prior to the match, produced the largest victory at Anfield in their club records as the Merseyside club fell to an eighth defeat in 11 matches in every tournament. The British record signing, Alexander Isak, was once more anonymous and the home side contended Murillo’s opener should have been disallowed for similar reasons to Virgil van Dijk’s chalked-off goal versus Manchester City prior to the national team pause. But the manager conceded the responsibility rested with him and made no excuses.

“No one wishes to listen to me now speaking about officiating calls if you lose 3-0 at home to Forest,” stated the Reds' boss. “I ought to look at my own role initially and my squad, but it demonstrates you how a goal can change the flow of a match. Before I was just waiting for us to score a strike. Afterwards we barely created any chances.

“Of course there is a way out, particularly with the quality players we have. No matter if you triumph or are beaten when you reflect you are always thinking: ‘In which areas can we improve, in what aspects can we make changes?’ but that is different from questioning yourself.

“I want to emphasise I am accountable for the current losses. You are answerable when you are winning but also responsible when you are losing. I can never provide sufficient excuses for us to have the outcomes we have. That is far from good enough and I am to blame for that.”

Liverpool’s performance unravelled as Slot introduced multiple offensive substitutions when chasing the match. “It was the identical away at Nottingham Forest last season,” he said. “I took the French defender out and put on the Portuguese forward and he scored immediately to equalize at 1-1. At that time it was courageous, now it’s likely unwise.”

The Anfield side last lost two successive at Anfield Premier League games by Nottingham Forest in the sixties. The last time they lost consecutive league games by a 3-0 margin was in the mid-60s.

The manager said: “It was extremely poor. Playing at home, conceding 3-0 no matter which opponent you face is a very, very bad result. Unexpected if you consider the first half-hour of the game. I did not witness us producing so many chances in the opening 30 minutes perhaps the whole campaign, and the initial occasion they entered in our box they found the back of the net.

“It did not happen at City, but in all other game we have been the dominant side and were capable to create chances. Recently it is nearly constantly that we miss our chances and the ones we allow find the net.”