Ruben Amorim suffers first major setback of Man Utd reign with defeat to Forest

Ruben Amorim suffered the first major setback of his Manchester United reign as Nottingham Forest

Capitalised on some poor defending and goalkeeping to secure a shock 3-2 Premier League win at Old Trafford.

The head coach warned that a storm was coming at the start of a week. That end in a second defeat and co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe talking about the work required to turn around a club. That has become “mediocre”.

Wednesday’s 2-0 loss at Arsenal was compoun on Saturday evening by Forest. With Nikola Milenkovic, Morgan Gibbs-White and Chris Wood securing the club’s first win at Old Trafford since 1994.

United boss Amorim will likely frustrated with the manner of the goals as the result.

Corners proved their undoing at Arsenal and Milenkovic headed home from one after just 88 seconds on Saturday, with set pieces continuing to https://ufabet999.app prove a problem after Rasmus Hojlund levelled.

After half-time, United undone by other issues. Andre Onana was embarrass by a swerving Gibbs-White strike, with the goalkeeper, Lisandro Martinez and Matthijs De Ligt then all failing to deal with a looping Wood header.

Bruno Fernandes pulled one back. But there was no leveller as Nuno Espirito Santo’s side saw out a memorable victory just days. After losing 3-0 down the road at Manchester City.

It was a first defeat for Amorim at Old Trafford. Where there was a heartfelt pre-match tribute to Kath Phipps after United’s longest-serving employee died this week at the age of 85.