Slot Offers Zero Justifications and Vows to Find Route From Slump

Liverpool's head coach declared he needed to “look at myself” after the Reds endured a 6th loss in 7 Premier League games at home against Forest and affirmed he would find a solution out of the champions’ slump.

Forest, in the relegation zone prior to the match, produced the largest win at Anfield in their history as Liverpool slipped to an eighth defeat in 11 matches in every tournament. The British record signing, Alexander Isak, was once more unnoticeable and the home side argued Murillo’s opener ought to have been ruled out for comparable grounds to the captain's disallowed effort versus City prior to the national team pause. But Slot admitted the buck stopped with him and offered no alibis.

“No one wants to listen to me now speaking about officiating calls if you are defeated 3-0 in your own stadium to Nottingham Forest,” said the Liverpool head coach. “I should examine myself initially and my squad, but it demonstrates you how a goal can alter the momentum of a game. Before I was just waiting for us to score a strike. Afterwards we barely generated anything.

“Of course there is a path forward, especially with the quality players we have. No matter if you triumph or lose when you reflect you are always considering: ‘In which areas can we improve, where can we adjust?’ but that is different from doubting your abilities.

“I want to stress I am accountable for the current defeats. You are answerable when you are winning but also liable when you are losing. I can never provide enough reasons for us to have the results we have. That is far from acceptable and I am to blame for that.”

Liverpool’s display fell apart as Slot introduced multiple offensive changes when pursuing the match. “It was the same on the road at Nottingham Forest the previous campaign,” he remarked. “I substituted the French defender off and brought on the Portuguese forward and he found the net immediately to make it 1-1. Then it was courageous, currently it’s probably stupid.”

The Anfield side previously were defeated in back-to-back home Premier League fixtures against Nottingham Forest in 1963. The last time they lost back-to-back top-flight matches by a three-goal scoreline was in 1965.

Slot commented: “It was very bad. Competing on home soil, conceding 3-0 regardless of which opponent you face is a very, very bad result. Unexpected if you look at the opening 30 minutes of the match. I did not witness us creating so much in the initial 30 minutes maybe the entire campaign, and the first time they entered in our penalty area they scored.

“It wasn’t at City, but in every other game we have been the dominant team and were able to generate chances. Recently it is almost consistently that we miss our opportunities and the ones we concede find the net.”