Slot Provides Zero Justifications and Pledges to Plot Route Out of Malaise

Liverpool's head coach declared he needed to “look at myself” after the Reds suffered a 6th defeat in seven Premier League games at home against Nottingham Forest and affirmed he would discover a way from the title holders' slump.

Nottingham Forest, fighting against the drop prior to the match, produced the biggest victory at Liverpool's stadium in their club records as Liverpool slipped to an 8th defeat in 11 fixtures in all competitions. The most expensive domestic acquisition, Alexander Isak, was once more anonymous and Liverpool argued Murillo’s first goal ought to have been ruled out for similar reasons to Virgil van Dijk’s disallowed effort versus Manchester City before the international break. But Slot conceded the responsibility rested 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 Forest,” stated the Liverpool head coach. “I ought to look at my own role initially and my team, but it does show you how a goal can change the flow of a match. Before I was just waiting for us to net a strike. Afterwards we barely created anything.

“Naturally there is a path forward, particularly with the quality footballers we have. Regardless if you win or lose when you reflect you are always thinking: ‘In which areas can we do better, in what aspects can we make changes?’ but that is something else from doubting yourself.

“I want to emphasise I am accountable for the present losses. You are responsible when you are victorious but also liable when you are defeated. I can not provide sufficient reasons for us to have the outcomes we have. That is far from good enough and I am responsible for that.”

Liverpool’s performance fell apart as Slot introduced several offensive changes when pursuing the match. “It was the same away at Nottingham Forest last season,” he remarked. “I took Ibou [Ibrahima Konaté] off and brought on [Diogo] Jota and he found the net 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 two successive at Anfield Premier League fixtures by Forest in 1963. The most recent occasion they suffered consecutive league games by a 3-0 margin was in the mid-60s.

Slot commented: “It was extremely poor. Competing at home, conceding 3-0 no matter which opponent you encounter is a very, very bad outcome. Unexpected if you consider the first half-hour of the game. I haven’t seen us producing so much in the opening 30 minutes maybe the whole campaign, and the initial occasion they entered in our penalty area they found the back of the net.

“It did not happen against Manchester City, but in all other game we have been the dominant side and were able to create chances. Recently it is nearly consistently that we fail to convert our chances and the ones we concede go in.”