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Liverpool's head coach stated he had to “look at myself” following Liverpool suffered a 6th defeat in seven English top-flight games at home against Forest and affirmed he would find a solution out of the title holders' slump.

Nottingham Forest, in the relegation zone before kick off, delivered the biggest victory at Anfield in their club records as the Merseyside club fell to an 8th defeat in 11 matches in every tournament. The most expensive domestic acquisition, the Swedish striker, was once more unnoticeable and Liverpool argued Murillo’s first goal ought to have been disallowed for comparable grounds to the captain's disallowed effort versus City prior to the international break. But the manager conceded the buck rested with him and offered no alibis.

“Nobody wants to listen to me now speaking about refereeing decisions if you lose 3-0 in your own stadium to Nottingham Forest,” stated the Reds' boss. “I should examine my own role initially and my team, but it does show you how a score can alter the flow of a game. Earlier I was just waiting for us to score a strike. Later we hardly created anything.

“Naturally there is a path forward, especially with the quality footballers we have. No matter if you win or lose when you reflect you are always considering: ‘Where can we do better, where can we adjust?’ but that is different from questioning yourself.

“I want to stress I am responsible for the current defeats. You are answerable when you are winning but also responsible when you are losing. I can not provide enough excuses for us to have the outcomes we have. That is far from good enough and I am to blame for that.”

Liverpool’s display unravelled as the coach introduced several attacking changes when pursuing the game. “It was the same on the road at Forest the previous campaign,” he remarked. “I substituted Ibou [Ibrahima Konaté] out and brought on [Diogo] Jota and he scored straight away to equalize at 1-1. Then it was brave, currently it’s probably stupid.”

Liverpool last lost back-to-back home league fixtures by Forest in 1963. The last time they suffered consecutive top-flight games by a three-goal margin was in the mid-60s.

The manager said: “It was extremely poor. Competing on home soil, losing 3-0 regardless of which team you face is a terrible result. Unexpected if you consider the opening 30 minutes of the match. I haven’t seen us producing so many chances in the initial half-hour maybe the entire campaign, and the initial occasion they arrived in our penalty area they found the back of the net.

“It wasn’t against Manchester City, but in every other game we have been the dominant team and were able to generate opportunities. Lately it is nearly consistently that we fail to convert our opportunities and the ones we allow go in.”