‘It’s far from good enough and I’m responsible for that’ – Arne Slot on Liverpool’s defeat to Nottingham Forest | OneFootball

Liverpool boss Arne Slot says he takes responsibility for his side’s poor run of results, the latest of which came in a 3-0 defeat to Nottingham Forest.

Slot’s side suffered a sixth league defeat of the season at home to Forest and have now dropped into the bottom half of the table.

“I think no matter if you win or lose, when you make a line-up and if you make substitutions and when you look back you’re always thinking, where can we do better, where can we adjust?” Slot reflected after the game.

“But I want to emphasise one more time on the fact that I’m responsible for the current losses. You are responsible when you’re winning, but you’re also responsible when you’re losing. And that’s why I prefer not to talk about referee decisions or other excuses.

“I can never come up with enough excuses for us to have the results we have. That is far from good enough and I’m responsible for that.”

Goals from Murillo, Nicolo Savona and Morgan Gibbs-White secured a big win for Forest, and Slot says his side were made to pay for not making their early dominance count, and the clinical finishing of their opponents.

“How bad, that’s difficult to measure, but it was very bad, of course,” Slot said on the defeat. “Playing at home, losing 3-0, no matter which team you face, is of course a very, very, very bad result. 

“Unexpected, if you look at the first half hour of the game. In my opinion, a good start from us. I haven’t seen us creating so much in the first half hour of a game, maybe throughout the whole season, I’m not sure, because I don’t remember every single game now, but we were able to create a lot. 

“The first time they arrived in our box, they scored a goal. “It’s a very difficult cocktail to drink or to have, if you miss out on your own chances and almost every time you concede one, the ball goes in.”