Slot Offers Zero Justifications and Pledges to Plot Way From Malaise

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

Nottingham Forest, fighting against the drop before kick off, produced the largest win at Anfield in their club records as Liverpool slipped to an eighth defeat in eleven fixtures in every tournament. The British record signing, Alexander Isak, was once more unnoticeable and Liverpool contended the defender's opener should have been disallowed for similar reasons to Virgil van Dijk’s disallowed effort against City prior to the international break. But Slot admitted the responsibility rested with him and offered no alibis.

“Nobody wants to listen to me now speaking about officiating calls if you lose 3-0 in your own stadium to Forest,” stated the Reds' boss. “I should look at myself initially and my team, but it does show you how a score can change the momentum of a game. Before I was just hoping for us to net a strike. Later we hardly created any chances.

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

“I want to stress I am accountable for the present losses. You are responsible when you are victorious but also responsible when you are losing. I can never come up with 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 display fell apart as the coach made several attacking changes when chasing the match. “It was the same away at Nottingham Forest the previous campaign,” he said. “I took Ibou [Ibrahima Konaté] off and brought on the Portuguese forward and he scored immediately to make it 1-1. At that time it was courageous, currently it’s likely stupid.”

Liverpool previously were defeated in two successive home Premier League games against Forest in 1963. The last time they suffered back-to-back top-flight matches by a 3-0 margin was in the mid-60s.

Slot commented: “It was extremely poor. Playing on home soil, conceding 3-0 regardless of which team you encounter is a very, very bad result. Surprising if you consider the first half-hour of the match. I did not witness us producing so much in the opening half-hour maybe the whole season, and the first time they entered in our box they scored.

“It did not happen against Manchester City, but in every other fixture we have been the dominant team and were capable to create chances. Lately it is almost consistently that we fail to convert our opportunities and the ones we concede find the net.”