Liverpool's Manager Offers No Excuses and Pledges to Plot Route From Slump

Liverpool's head coach stated he needed to “examine my own performance” after the Reds endured a 6th defeat in 7 Premier League games on their own turf against Nottingham Forest and insisted he would find a way out of the title holders' slump.

Nottingham Forest, fighting against the drop prior to the match, delivered the biggest win at Liverpool's stadium in their club records as Liverpool slipped to an 8th defeat in eleven fixtures in every tournament. The most expensive domestic acquisition, Alexander Isak, was again unnoticeable and Liverpool contended Murillo’s first goal ought to have been disallowed for comparable grounds to Virgil van Dijk’s disallowed effort against Manchester City before the national team pause. But Slot conceded the responsibility stopped with him and made no excuses.

“No one wishes to hear me now talking about refereeing decisions if you lose 3-0 at home to Nottingham Forest,” stated the Liverpool head coach. “I ought to examine myself first and my team, but it demonstrates you how a score can change the flow of a match. Before I was just waiting for us to score a strike. Afterwards we hardly generated anything.

“Of course there is a path forward, especially with the talented footballers we have. No matter if you triumph or are beaten when you reflect you are always thinking: ‘Where can we improve, in what aspects can we make changes?’ but that is different from doubting yourself.

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

The team's display unravelled as the coach made several offensive substitutions when chasing the game. “It was the identical away at Forest the previous campaign,” he remarked. “I substituted 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 courageous, currently it’s likely unwise.”

Liverpool previously were defeated in two successive home Premier League games against Nottingham Forest in the sixties. The most recent occasion they suffered consecutive top-flight matches by a 3-0 scoreline was in the mid-60s.

The manager said: “It was extremely poor. Playing at home, conceding 3-0 no matter which team you encounter is a very, very bad result. Surprising if you look at the opening 30 minutes of the game. I did not witness us producing so many chances in the initial 30 minutes perhaps the entire season, and the first time they entered in our penalty area they found the back of the net.

“It wasn’t against Manchester City, but in all other game we have been the dominant team and were capable to create chances. Recently it is almost consistently that we fail to convert our opportunities and the ones we concede find the net.”