Liverpool's Manager Provides No Excuses and Vows to Plot Route Out of Slump

Arne Slot declared he needed to “examine my own performance” following the Reds endured a 6th defeat in 7 Premier League games on their own turf to Forest and affirmed he would discover a way out of the champions’ slump.

Nottingham Forest, fighting against the drop before kick off, produced the biggest win at Anfield in their history as Liverpool fell to an 8th loss in eleven matches in all competitions. The British record signing, the Swedish striker, was again unnoticeable and the home side argued the defender's first goal should have been ruled out for comparable grounds to the captain's disallowed effort versus City before the national team pause. But the manager admitted the responsibility stopped with him and made no excuses.

“No one wants to hear me now speaking about officiating calls if you are defeated 3-0 at home to Nottingham Forest,” stated the Reds' boss. “I ought to examine my own role first and my team, but it demonstrates you how a goal can change the flow of a game. Before I was just hoping for us to score a goal. Afterwards we barely generated anything.

“Naturally there is a path forward, especially with the talented players we have. Regardless if you triumph or lose when you reflect you are always considering: ‘Where can we improve, in what aspects can we make changes?’ but that is different from doubting your abilities.

“I wish to emphasise I am accountable for the present defeats. You are answerable when you are victorious but also responsible when you are defeated. I can never provide sufficient reasons for us to have the outcomes we have. That is far from acceptable and I am to blame for that.”

The team's performance unravelled as Slot introduced multiple offensive substitutions when pursuing the game. “It was the identical away at Forest last season,” he remarked. “I substituted Ibou [Ibrahima Konaté] off and brought on the Portuguese forward and he scored straight away to make it 1-1. At that time it was brave, currently it’s likely unwise.”

The Anfield side previously were defeated in back-to-back at Anfield Premier League fixtures against Nottingham Forest in 1963. The most recent occasion they suffered back-to-back league matches by a 3-0 margin was in 1965.

Slot said: “It was extremely poor. Playing on home soil, losing 3-0 regardless of which team you encounter is a terrible outcome. Unexpected if you look at the opening 30 minutes of the match. I haven’t seen us creating so much in the opening 30 minutes perhaps the whole season, and the initial occasion they entered in our penalty area they scored.

“It did not happen at City, but in all other fixture we have been the controlling side and were capable to create opportunities. Recently it is almost consistently that we miss our chances and the ones we concede find the net.”