Arne Slot Offers No Excuses And Vows To Plot Route Out Of Liverpool Malaise

Arne Slot said he needed to “look astatine myself” aft Liverpool suffered a sixth conclusion successful 7 Premier League games at location to Nottingham Forest and insisted he would find a measurement retired of nan champions’ slump.

Forest, successful nan relegation area earlier footwear off, produced nan biggest triumph astatine Anfield successful their history arsenic Liverpool slipped to an eighth nonaccomplishment successful 11 matches successful each competitions. The British grounds signing, Alexander Isak, was again anonymous and Liverpool based on Murillo’s opener should person been ruled retired for akin reasons to Virgil van Dijk’s disallowed effort against Manchester City earlier nan world break. But Slot admitted nan subordinate stopped pinch him and made nary excuses.

“No 1 wants to perceive maine now talking astir refereeing decisions if you suffer 3-0 astatine location to Forest,” said nan Liverpool caput coach. “I should look astatine myself first and my team, but it does show you really a extremity tin alteration nan momentum of a game. Before I was conscionable waiting for america to people a goal. Afterwards we hardly created anything.

“Of people location is simply a measurement out, particularly pinch nan value players we have. No matter if you triumph aliases suffer erstwhile you look backmost you are ever thinking: ‘Where tin we do better, wherever tin we adjust?’ but that is thing other from doubting yourself.

“I want to emphasise I americium responsible for nan existent losses. You are responsible erstwhile you are winning but besides responsible erstwhile you are losing. I tin ne'er travel up pinch capable excuses for america to person nan results we have. That is acold from bully capable and I americium responsible for that.”

Liverpool’s capacity unravelled arsenic Slot made respective attacking substitutions erstwhile chasing nan game. “It was nan aforesaid distant astatine Forest past season,” he said. “I took Ibou [Ibrahima Konaté] disconnected and put connected [Diogo] Jota and he scored consecutive distant to make it 1-1. Then it was brave, now it’s astir apt stupid.”

Liverpool past mislaid 2 successive location convention games against Forest successful 1963. The past clip they mislaid back-to-back convention games by a three-goal separator was successful 1965.

Slot said: “It was very bad. Playing astatine home, losing 3-0 nary matter which squad you look is simply a very, very bad result. Unexpected if you look astatine nan first half-hour of nan game. I haven’t seen america creating truthful overmuch successful nan opening half-hour possibly nan full season, and nan first clip they arrived successful our container they scored.

“It wasn’t astatine City, but successful each different crippled we person been nan ascendant squad and were capable to create chances. Lately it is almost perpetually that we miss our chances and nan ones we concede spell in.”