Nottingham Forest handed Manchester United and Ruben Amorim a second successive defeat as they sealed a stunning 3-2 victory at Old Trafford on Saturday.
Nikola Milenkovic, Morgan Gibbs-White and Chris Wood were on target for Forest, while Rasmus Hojlund and Bruno Fernandes struck back for the visitors.
Forest opened the scoring inside two minutes when Milenkovic rose highest from a corner to head Forest ahead with his first goal for the club – the third corner United have conceded from in three games.
United did not let their heads drop and after 15 minutes of consistent pressure, finally found an equaliser when Hojlund poked home the rebound from Alejandro Garnacho’s close-range effort.
Both teams hit the woodwork in the first half through Jota Silva and Fernandes as they looked to edge ahead, but headed for the break all square.
But just as they did in the first half, Forest found the net within two minutes of the restart when Gibbs-White wrong-footed Andre Onana with a fierce strike from outside the box.
And that effort seemed to have wobbled Onana, who looked confused as Forest swung in a cross to Wood at the back post seven minutes later, who looped a header back across goal and into the opposite corner of the net for 3-1 as the New Zealander became the club’s all-time top Premier League top scorer.
This time, United replied positively when Amad Diallo set up Fernandes to wrap his foot around a powerful strike to pull a goal back for the home side.
Forest held firm to move into the top five and two points off the top four, while United stay in 13th.
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