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Arne Slot should bring two players into his Liverpool starting XI moving forward to help address the worrying run of results, according to Gary Neville.
"What is unusual is the severity and immediacy of the drop, and the worrying signs that are appearing," Neville, who has also rubbished suggestions that Slot could be fired, said on his Sky Sports podcast. "A blip is losing one or two games; when you start losing three and four you have to do something.
"You can't lose six games in seven if you are Liverpool Football Club. It's unacceptable. The manager has to change the style or the system and help them. It means being more solid, personnel changes.
"[Milos] Kerkez is struggling, [Ibrahima] Konate is struggling. I called on it a few weeks ago; I said maybe Joe Gomez should play right-back, Andy Robertson at left-back and play as a narrow back four.
"Be a bit more pragmatic. Something has to change in the collective.
"From an individual perspective, you have to strip it right back to the foundations, whether that's sleep, stretching, eating, the tiny details. Do everything better."
Gomez was unable to feature against Nottingham Forest because he hadn't trained all week, Slot explained in his post-match press conference. The player was named on the bench but didn't come on.
Robertson, meanwhile, has been in the team lately. Kerkez was selected here and he had to settle for coming on during the second half on Saturday, but Robertson been in the starting XI for the four matches leading up to the international break.
"I thought Liverpool would experience what they are experiencing this season last year, after Klopp left," Neville added.
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"What Slot did was out of the ordinary. Liverpool expect to win titles; they don't expect to lose six of seven in any season. He's causing himself a problem.
"Slot is a brilliant manager with real class, but he's got to reverse and do something different — maybe make some difficult decisions.
"He's going to come under pressure; let's not get too carried away with that. The players have to step up, or it will become a problem."
Liverpool.com says: Starting Gomez could be a good idea, but he can't play three times a week all the time. Bringing him in too often would risk another injury setback, and that would leave everyone back at square one again.
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