Liverpool's Manager Provides No Excuses and Pledges to Find Way Out of Slump

Liverpool's head coach stated he had to “examine my own performance” after the Reds suffered a sixth loss in 7 Premier League games at home to Forest and affirmed he would discover a solution out of the champions’ poor run.

Nottingham Forest, in the relegation zone before kick off, produced the largest win at Liverpool's stadium in their history as Liverpool fell to an 8th loss in eleven matches in all competitions. The British record signing, the Swedish striker, was once more anonymous and the home side argued the defender's first goal ought to have been ruled out for similar reasons to Virgil van Dijk’s chalked-off goal versus Manchester City before the national team pause. But Slot admitted the responsibility rested with him and made no excuses.

“No one wants to hear me now talking about refereeing decisions if you are defeated 3-0 in your own stadium to Nottingham Forest,” stated the Liverpool head coach. “I should look at 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 score a strike. Later we hardly created any chances.

“Naturally there is a path forward, particularly with the quality players we have. No matter if you triumph or are beaten when you look back you are always considering: ‘In which areas can we do better, where can we adjust?’ but that is different from doubting yourself.

“I want to emphasise I am accountable for the present defeats. You are responsible when you are victorious 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 display unravelled as the coach introduced multiple offensive changes when pursuing the game. “It was the same away at Forest the previous campaign,” he said. “I took Ibou [Ibrahima Konaté] out and put on the Portuguese forward and he scored straight away to equalize at 1-1. At that time it was courageous, now it’s likely unwise.”

Liverpool last lost back-to-back home Premier League fixtures by Forest in 1963. The most recent occasion they suffered back-to-back league matches by a 3-0 scoreline was in 1965.

Slot said: “It was extremely poor. Competing at home, conceding 3-0 regardless of which team you encounter is a terrible result. Unexpected if you look at the opening 30 minutes of the match. I haven’t seen us creating so much in the initial half-hour maybe the entire season, and the first time they entered in our box they found the back of the net.

“It did not happen at City, but in every other game we have been the dominant team and were able to create chances. Recently it is nearly consistently that we fail to convert our chances and the attempts we concede go in.”