Nottingham Forest delivered a stunning 3–0 demolition of a shell-shocked Liverpool at Anfield on Saturday, plunging the champions into their deepest crisis of the season and handing them back-to-back home defeats to Forest for the first time in 62 years.
Goals from Murillo, Nicolo Savona and Morgan Gibbs-White secured Forest’s first consecutive league wins at Anfield since 1962, while Liverpool slumped to an eighth loss in their last 11 matches, and their sixth in seven Premier League outings.
Arne Slot’s men now sit a dismal 11th, eight points behind leaders Arsenal.
Liverpool unravel — again
Forest struck first in the 33rd minute when Liverpool failed to clear Elliot Anderson’s corner, and Murillo smashed home. Liverpool protested furiously, claiming
Dan Ndoye was obstructing Alisson’s line of sight — the exact offence that saw Virgil van Dijk’s goal disallowed against Manchester City before the international break — but the goal stood.
Just seconds into the second half, Liverpool’s frailties were exposed again. Neco Williams burst down the byline and cut the ball back for Savona, who calmly slotted in Forest’s second.
The humiliation was complete in the 78th minute. Alisson made a superb stop to deny Omari Hutchinson, but Gibbs-White pounced on the rebound to make it 3–0 and silence Anfield.
A season spiralling out of control
The defeat marks the first time since 1965 that Liverpool have lost consecutive league games by a three-goal margin. Slot admitted on Friday that the squad is still grieving the tragic death of Diogo Jota this summer, but the Reds once again looked flat, unfocused and devoid of energy.
Their £400 million summer spending spree has yet to provide answers. Record signing Alexander Isak was hauled off in the second half after another fruitless outing — he still hasn’t scored a Premier League goal for the club.
Forest’s win, meanwhile, lifts them to 16th and hands them a rare moment of history at Anfield.
Liverpool, once feared for their intensity and relentlessness, now seem trapped in a freefall with no clear way out.
(with agency inputs)
