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Liverpool's head coach stated he needed to “look at myself” following Liverpool suffered a 6th loss in 7 Premier League matches at home against Forest and insisted he would discover a solution from the title holders' poor run.

Forest, fighting against the drop prior to the match, delivered the biggest victory at Anfield in their club records as Liverpool fell to an eighth defeat in 11 fixtures in every tournament. The British record signing, the Swedish striker, was once more anonymous and Liverpool argued the defender's first goal ought to have been ruled out for comparable grounds to Virgil van Dijk’s chalked-off goal against City before the national team pause. But the manager conceded the responsibility rested with him and offered no alibis.

“No one wishes to listen to me now talking about refereeing decisions if you are defeated 3-0 at home to Forest,” said the Liverpool head coach. “I should look at myself first and my team, but it demonstrates you how a score can change the momentum of a match. Earlier I was just waiting for us to score a strike. Later we hardly generated any chances.

“Of course there is a way out, particularly with the talented footballers we have. No matter if you triumph or lose when you reflect you are always considering: ‘Where can we do better, where can we make changes?’ but that is something else from doubting yourself.

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

The team's display unravelled as the coach introduced multiple offensive substitutions when pursuing the match. “It was the same on the road at Forest the previous campaign,” he said. “I took the French defender out and brought on [Diogo] Jota and he scored immediately to equalize at 1-1. At that time it was courageous, currently it’s probably unwise.”

The Anfield side previously were defeated in two successive home Premier League fixtures by Forest in the sixties. The most recent occasion they suffered back-to-back top-flight games by a 3-0 scoreline was in 1965.

The manager commented: “It was extremely poor. Competing at home, conceding 3-0 no matter which opponent you encounter is a very, very bad result. Unexpected if you look at the first half-hour of the match. I haven’t seen us creating so much in the opening half-hour perhaps the whole campaign, and the initial occasion they entered in our box they scored.

“It did not happen against Manchester City, but in every other game we have been the controlling team and were capable to create opportunities. Lately it is almost consistently that we miss our opportunities and the attempts we concede go in.”