Nottingham Forest vs Man United: Goals from Antony and Dalot give the Red Devils a comfortable 2-0 win over Forest

The Red Devils moved up to third in the Premier League with a routine 2-0 win at Nottingham Forest vs Man United, strengthening their grip on a Champions League qualifying spot.

Nottingham Forest vs Man United: Match Summary

Nottingham Forest kicked off at the City Ground sat in the relegation zone, but a win over United would have moved them above 17th place Everton.

As for Manchester United, they were helped out in their hunt for Champions League football after Tottenham and Newcastle both lost on Saturday.

However, the Red Devils still had to face Forest without two of their best players as Lisandro Martinez and Marcus Rashford are out injured.

When all was said and done on Sunday, Manchester United came away with the win.

Manchester United nearly scored inside a minute but Felipe blocked a Jadon Sancho effort that had beaten Keylor Navas.

Navas then made a superb save to keep out a powerful Bruno Fernandes strike after 17 minutes.

This was followed by another good stop 31 minutes in to deny Martial but unfortunately for Forest, the rebound fell straight to Anthony who slotted into an open net.

Forest had a great chance to equalise right before the break when a loose Diogo Dalot touch put the ball into Awoniyi's path but he fired his effort over.

Manchester United began the second 45 of Nottingham Forest vs Man United on top, with Bruno Fernandes rattling the post after 56 minutes.

The home outfit's first decent chance of the second half came 73 minutes in. A corner was floated onto the head of Felipe but he was close to the goal and put too much power on his header.

Minutes later, Diogo Dalot went up the other end and made it 2-0 to hand United the three points.

Forest have now lost 10 games in a row to Man Utd across all competitions, including four times this season - but it could have been different had a VAR call gone in their favour in the first half. They will feel hard done by for not being awarded a penalty with the score at 0-0 when the ball struck an arm of the nervy Harry Maguire in the box.

But Forest are now without a win in 10 and remain third-bottom. They are in the relegation zone instead of Everton because of goal difference.

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