Liverpool's Manager Offers No Excuses and Pledges to Plot Way From Slump

Liverpool's head coach declared he needed to “examine my own performance” following Liverpool endured a 6th defeat in 7 English top-flight matches on their own turf against Forest and affirmed he would discover a solution from the title holders' slump.

Nottingham Forest, fighting against the drop before kick off, delivered the largest win at Anfield in their history as Liverpool slipped to an eighth loss in eleven fixtures in every tournament. The most expensive domestic acquisition, the Swedish striker, was again anonymous and Liverpool contended Murillo’s opener ought to have been ruled out for similar reasons to Virgil van Dijk’s disallowed effort against City prior to the international break. But Slot admitted the buck stopped with him and made no excuses.

“Nobody wants to hear me now talking about officiating calls if you are defeated 3-0 at home to Nottingham Forest,” stated the Liverpool head coach. “I should examine my own role first and my team, but it demonstrates you how a score can alter the momentum of a match. Earlier I was just waiting for us to net a goal. Afterwards we hardly created anything.

“Of course there is a path forward, particularly with the quality footballers we have. Regardless if you win or lose when you look back you are always considering: ‘In which areas can we do better, in what aspects can we adjust?’ but that is something else from doubting your abilities.

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

Liverpool’s performance unravelled as the coach made multiple attacking substitutions when pursuing the match. “It was the identical away at Nottingham Forest last season,” he remarked. “I substituted the French defender out and brought on the Portuguese forward and he scored straight away to make it 1-1. At that time it was courageous, currently it’s likely stupid.”

The Anfield side last lost two successive home Premier League fixtures by Nottingham Forest in the sixties. The last time they suffered consecutive league games by a three-goal margin was in the mid-60s.

Slot said: “It was very bad. Playing on home soil, conceding 3-0 regardless of which opponent you face is a very, very bad result. Surprising if you consider the opening 30 minutes of the game. I did not witness us creating so much in the initial 30 minutes perhaps the entire campaign, and the first time they arrived in our penalty area they scored.

“It wasn’t at City, but in every other fixture we have been the dominant team and were able to generate chances. Recently it is nearly constantly that we fail to convert our opportunities and the attempts we allow find the net.”