• Nottingham Forest leave Anfield as 3-0 winners

• Slot: ‘I should look at myself first and my team’

Arne Slot said he needed to “look at myself” after Liverpool suffered a sixth defeat in seven Premier League games at home to Nottingham Forest and insisted he would find a way out of the champions’ slump.

Forest, in the relegation zone before kick-off, produced the biggest win at Anfield in their history as Liverpool slipped to an eighth loss in 11 matches in all competitions. The British record signing, Alexander Isak, was again anonymous and Liverpool argued Murillo’s opener should have been ruled out for similar reasons to Virgil van Dijk’s disallowed effort against Manchester City before the international break. But Slot admitted the buck stopped with him and made no excuses.

Last season it was a one-off, a blip in an otherwise commanding Premier League home campaign, but Nottingham Forest’s latest victory at Liverpool was symptomatic of myriad problems engulfing the faltering champions. Arne Slot cannot pin this one on set piece failings alone.

Sean Dyche’s team – and his game-plan – were exemplary as Forest recorded the biggest win at Anfield in their club’s history. Goals from Murillo, outstanding at both ends of the pitch, Nicolò Savona and the superb Morgan Gibbs-White deservedly lifted Forest out of the relegation zone on the foundation of a first clean sheet in 20 league games.