Nottingham Forest boss Steve Cooper felt defeat at Liverpool was self-inflicted.
Forest fought back from 2-0 down before losing 3-2 at Anfield.
"The result and the stats of conceding three add to the negative run that we're on. If you look at the game in isolation, the huge frustration for us is that we've conceded three goals from set-pieces," Cooper said.
Once the set-pieces were given away, the goals were really avoidable. We could have cleared the first one simply with the first contact. And the second one, we've just not marked properly, in terms of runners getting in the box.
That is the real frustration. It was always going to be an incredibly tough game, so to think we've minimised Liverpool to not many open-play chances, to score two, to hit the bar and to get into some positions where we should do better with final passes, that all tells me we did some really decent things in the game.
But you can't come away from the fact we've lost. That is the be-all and end-all."
