Nottingham Forest defeated Manchester United 3-2 in their Premier League game on Saturday as Ruben Amorim lost for the first time at Old Trafford.
Nikola Milenkovic headed Forest in front inside two minutes but United responded through Rasmus Hojlund only to gift the lead back to Nuno Espirito Santo’s side early in the second half following a bizarre piece of goalkeeping by Andre Onana.
Morgan Gibbs-White’s swerving shot completely wrong-footed him, finding its way into the net, and when Chris Wood doubled Forest’s advantage soon afterwards, the game looked like it was going away from Amorim and his players very quickly at Old Trafford.
Bruno Fernandes pulled one back for United with a neat finish but was then substituted and United subsequently lacked the creativity needed to find the equaliser against a resilient Forest team that clung on for their first win at Old Trafford in 30 years.
Nuno’s team are up to fifth in the Premier League table. As for United, they are down in 13th.
Amorim had only ever lost back-to-back top-flight league games once before in his coaching career. It has not taken him long to experience that at Manchester United.
Meanwhile, Manchester City failed to win for the eighth time in nine games in a 2-2 draw at Crystal Palace on Saturday as high winds caused the Merseyside derby between Everton and Liverpool to be postponed.
City had the chance to go second in the Premier League but failed to build on a 3-0 win over Nottingham Forest in midweek, which had appeared to stop the rot for the English champions.
Pep Guardiola’s men got off to the worst possible start at Selhurst Park when Daniel Munoz raced on to Will Hughes’ pass to fire Palace in front after four minutes.
Liverpool’s Premier League clash at Everton postponed over high winds
Erling Haaland’s towering header from Matheus Nunes’ cross brought City back level and took the Norwegian level with Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah on 13 Premier League goals in the battle for the Golden Boot.
The visitors started the second half strongly but were hit with a sucker punch when Maxence Lacroix powered home Hughes’ corner.
Rico Lewis found the top corner to level once more for City but was then sent off six minutes from time.
The final league derby between Everton and Liverpool at Goodison Park will have to be rescheduled after Storm Darragh battered western regions of England with high winds and heavy rain.
A decision was made to postpone the lunchtime kick-off due to safety concerns.
Brentford enjoyed the best home record in the division and made it seven wins from eight games at the Gtech Community Stadium with a thrilling 4-2 victory over Newcastle.
Aston Villa also moved up to fifth thanks to a 1-0 win over bottom-of-the-table Southampton.
Liverpool’s postponement means Arsenal and Chelsea have the chance the cut the gap at the top to four points when they travel to Fulham and Tottenham respectively on Sunday.
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