Arne Slot reacts during his Liverpool side's 3-0 home loss to Nottingham Forest (Image: Darren Staples / AFP via Getty Images)

When Liverpool were beaten at home by Nottingham Forest last season, the defeat became a running joke among Reds supporters as their team sauntered to a dominant Premier League title triumph. Nobody of an Anfield persuasion will be laughing now, though, after another reverse against Forest highlighted the many problems with which Arne Slot simply has no option but to address immediately.

With Liverpool chairman Tom Werner watching from the directors’ box, this was precisely the wrong time for Liverpool to post one of their worst home performances in a very, very long time.

Statistically this dreadful 3-0 reverse matched the heaviest Anfield defeat in the

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