Liverpool's Manager Provides No Excuses and Vows to Plot Way From Slump

Arne Slot stated he needed to “look at myself” after the Reds suffered a 6th defeat in 7 Premier League games on their own turf against Nottingham Forest and insisted he would discover a solution from the champions’ slump.

Nottingham Forest, fighting against the drop prior to the match, produced the biggest win at Liverpool's stadium in their history as the Merseyside club fell to an eighth defeat in 11 matches in all competitions. The British record signing, the Swedish striker, was once more unnoticeable and Liverpool contended Murillo’s first goal ought to have been disallowed for similar reasons to Virgil van Dijk’s disallowed effort against Manchester City before the national team pause. But Slot admitted the buck stopped with him and made no excuses.

“Nobody 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 my own role first and my squad, but it does show you how a score can alter the momentum of a game. Earlier I was just waiting for us to score a strike. Later we hardly generated any chances.

“Of course there is a path forward, particularly with the talented players we have. Regardless if you win or lose when you look back you are always considering: ‘In which areas can we do better, in what aspects can we adjust?’ but that is something else from questioning yourself.

“I wish to emphasise I am accountable for the current losses. You are answerable when you are winning but also liable when you are defeated. I can not provide enough excuses for us to have the outcomes we have. That is far from good enough and I am responsible for that.”

The team's display fell apart as Slot introduced multiple offensive changes when chasing the match. “It was the same away at Nottingham Forest the previous campaign,” he said. “I took the French defender out and put on the Portuguese forward and he scored immediately to make it 1-1. Then it was brave, currently it’s probably stupid.”

Liverpool previously were defeated in two successive home Premier League games against Nottingham Forest in 1963. The most recent occasion they suffered back-to-back league matches by a 3-0 margin was in 1965.

The manager said: “It was extremely poor. Playing at home, conceding 3-0 regardless of which team you face is a terrible outcome. Surprising if you consider the opening 30 minutes of the game. I did not witness us producing so much in the initial 30 minutes perhaps the whole campaign, and the initial occasion they arrived in our penalty area they found the back of the net.

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