Manchester United suffered back-to-back defeats in the Premier League after losing 3-2 to Nottingham Forest at Old Trafford.
Chris Wood's tenth league goal of the season in the 54th minute proved the winner as Forest climbed to fifth place – just two points behind Manchester City in fourth.
Nikola Milenkovic put the visitors ahead with just 91 seconds on the clock when he headed in an Elliot Anderson corner, but Rasmus Hojlund leveled the score for United 16 minutes later after Alejandro Garnacho's initial effort was saved by Matz Sels.
Jota Silva and Bruno Fernandes were denied by the woodwork in the first half before Morgan Gibbs-White made it 2-1 for Forest just two minutes after the restart.
Wood then planted a header past Andre Onana to double Forest's lead before United captain Fernandes pulled one back just after the hour mark.
Ruben Amorim's team pushed for an equalizer, but Forest kept them at bay and took full points.
Forest now have 25 points from 15 games, while United are in 13th place with 19 points.
Writing themselves into forest folklore. pic.twitter.com/trYGHq7wfW
— Nottingham Forest (@NFFC) December 7, 2024
Data debriefing: Wood makes forest history
Wood's winner was his 25th Premier League goal for Forest and helped him overtake Bryan Roy (24) to become their all-time top scorer in the competition.
Since the appointment of Nuno Espírito Santo in December 2023, only Erling Haaland (21) has scored more non-penalty goals in the league than Wood (19 – equal to Cole Palmer).
Nuno became only the second Forest manager to win both of his first two league games against United, after Fred Earp in the 1909–10 season.
Meanwhile, his counterpart Amorim suffered back-to-back defeats for only the second time, the first of which came during his spell at former club Sporting in August 2022.
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