Nottingham Forest produced a disciplined, devastating performance to beat reigning Premier League champions Liverpool 3-0 at Anfield, exposing once again the flaws that have turned Arne Slot's title defence into a full-blown crisis. Goals from Murillo, Nicolò Savona and Morgan Gibbs-White delivered Forest's biggest-ever victory at this stadium and lifted them out of the relegation zone, while Liverpool slid further into the bottom half after a sixth league defeat in seven.
For 30 minutes, the champions looked like a side desperate to make amends after their 3-0 defeat at Manchester City, dominating possession and carving out the better chances. But once Murillo struck late in the first half, Forest never looked back. They combined Sean Dyche's hallmark organisation and physicality with real quality in key moments, recording a first clean sheet in 20 league games and inflicting a second successive 3-0 league loss on Liverpool for the first time since 1965.
Liverpool's fast start squandered as Forest stand firm
Slot restored Alisson in goal after an injury and recalled British-record signing Alexander Isak up front following a month out, hoping to jolt Liverpool into life. For a time, it seemed to work. The hosts dominated the ball, enjoying around three-quarters of the possession, and this was, by Slot's own admission, as incisive as they had looked in the final third all season during that opening spell.