Manchester United beat Nottingham Forest 2–0.
Goalscorers Antony (back) and Diogo Dalot celebrate their successes at the City Ground. PDO
Manchester United’s injury crisis is unprecedented.
No less than three defenders who started Thursday’s Sevilla match were sidelined for Sunday’s match against Nottingham Forest. Manager Erik ten Hag applied for mothballs By Diogo Dalot, by Victor Lindelöf and Harry Maguire’s to fill in the gaps.
It was telling that a 19-year-old Iraqi was sitting on the bench Zidane Iqbal and his Catalan peer Marc Jurado.
Neither has even debuted at the league level.
Instead, a topper who played 27 A national matches Phil Jones didn’t even make it to the City Ground, despite being fully fit.
Even after scoring two goals against Sevilla in the warm-up Marcel Sabitzer caught someone’s bump, was ten Hag in front of a really kinky assembly nut.
The Dutchman thanked his luck that it was “only” Forest. The promotion is a strong candidate to be relegated to the Champions League and was unable to shake the reserves United.
The visitors should have won this match by a wide margin, but poor finishing combined with goalkeeping Keylor Navas to a phenomenal afternoon meant that the margin was only recorded as 0-2.
Brass reinforcement Antony slid United into the lead at just over half an hour, and set up the opening goal of Dalot’s Premier League career in the second period.
The away win lifted the red shirts to third in the league and increased the gap to Tottenham, who are leading the Champions League spot, to six points already.