Liverpool head coach Arne Slot admits his first defeat – a shock 1-0 dwelling loss to Nottingham Forest – is “an enormous setback.”

After three victories with out conceding his aspect laboured for 72 minutes earlier than Callum Hudson-Odoi’s strike secured the guests’ first win at Anfield since 1969.

“It’s a massive setback. When you lose a house recreation that’s at all times a setback,” Slot stated.

“Usually this workforce isn’t ending up in prime 10, so when you lose a recreation towards them that’s an enormous disappointment, though they have been organised and structured rather well right now.

“The one factor we had affect on was ball possession as a result of they performed plenty of lengthy balls, so when you then take the ball again you might want to go previous 11 gamers.

“We had plenty of ball possession however solely managed to create three or 4 fairly good possibilities. That’s by far not sufficient.

“When you have a lot possession and play a lot of their half we must be significantly better, we misplaced the ball so many instances in easy conditions.

“That’s the primary story from the sport – ball possession was not adequate.”

This was Slot’s first match after a world break and it appeared to point out as passes went astray with alarming regularity, the connections constructed up beforehand changing into severed fairly rapidly.

Liverpool had 10 gamers who performed the complete 90 minutes in each video games for his or her worldwide groups and the likes of Alexis Mac Allister and Luis Diaz travelled again from South America.

Nonetheless, that’s not out of the extraordinary and Slot didn’t look to search out excuses.

“It’s at all times tough, however I don’t assume it had something to do with it,” he added.

“Gamers got here again robust and I noticed right now a workforce that needed to combat till the tip. That wasn’t to do with vitality.

“When you take a look at the targets we scored till now, we scored fairly a number of from transition moments from profitable the ball again, however the different workforce (Forest) performed over our press loads with plenty of lengthy balls.

“It wasn’t adequate right now as a result of too many particular person performances in ball possession have been less than the requirements that I’m used to from these gamers.”

Forest boss Nuno Espirito Santo was understandably delighted with the outcome, particularly because the membership had taken simply 5 factors from their earlier 25 visits to Anfield.

“A lot of our followers right now within the stadium weren’t even born (the final time they received) so that claims how exhausting it’s,” he stated.

“I’m very pleased and pleased with the work of the gamers, they labored very exhausting.

“General, we knew how exhausting the sport was going to be. It’s all about taking your possibilities.”