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Liverpool head coach Arne Slot has insisted that his side can improve quickly, despite its latest damaging defeat leaving it languishing in the bottom half of the Premier League table.
Nottingham Forest was the deserving winner at Anfield on Saturday as it won 3-0 thanks to goals from Murillo, Nicolo Savona, and Morgan Gibbs-White. Repeating the trick from last season, the East Midlands outfit won without conceding a goal for the second successive campaign.
"The first half hour, I think the players did what I was hoping for," Slot told Premier League Productions. "They played with energy and created chances to go a goal up.
"The set piece changed the momentum and the goal. I tried to make a couple of changes and adjustments, but they didn't work out the way I wanted. It's always my responsibility.
"I don't feel [that the players are lacking confidence] or I don't see this. After we go 1-0 down, we struggled.
"I tried to pump them up and give them the information to start the second half well. Immediately, they go 2-0 up.
"The players kept trying, I can't blame them for that. They blocked every shot we had.
"The solution is not that far away. We created chances in every and it's not as if we give away 10 chances.
"That will not go on forever, but we have to look at ourselves and what we can do better when we concede a goal. Two games in a row, we haven't scored."
In the Liverpool locker room at the final whistle, there is no doubt that there will be a mixture of negative emotions. Virgil van Dijk and the leaders in the group will be tasked with overseeing a swift improvement, just as they have for the last few weeks.
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"It should be like this," Slot said of the mood being low. "No matter what kind of form you're in when you're losing at home 3-0 and the run of form we've been in.
"The Champions League [tie with PSV] is coming up and the players we have available have to find their energy to go again.
"It doens't happen a lot at Anfield that we lose 3-0. I told the players afterwards, the fans were singing after the final whistle. I don't think it's strange that you go home if you're 3-0 down."
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