Nottingham Forest took another step towards the qualification of Champions League after beating Man United 1-0 on Tuesday evening.
2024/2025 Premier League
1-0
- Anthony Elanga (5 ')
Match report
Nuno Espirito Santo, the men of Nuno Espirito Santo, have booked their place in the FA Cup-Halve final with a penalty shoot-out victory on Brighton and took a big step on Tuesday in the direction of Champions League qualification.
It was a trademark counter -attacking goal after just five minutes that turned out to be decisive. After a corner of Bruno Fernandes was cleaned up, Elanga wore the ball deep in his own half to the united criminal area and then stroked his finish in the corner on the right.
Casemiro nodded wide from a different angle when United sought a reaction, with the lightning of Diogo Dalot and then bounced from the bar of a third Fernandes Set piece.
United continued to dominate the procedures after the break without eliminating clear opportunities, so that she introduces Harry Maguire as a auxiliary stitcher.
And after colleague replacement Mason Mount had curled up of his first involvement, Maguire saw two golden chances falling his way.
He distracted the dangerous cross of Patrick Dorgu with an uncomfortable header, and then deep in the stop time, was refused by a heroic goal line of Murillo.
While United 13th stays in the table, the victory takes the third placed forest eight points free from Chelsea and nine above Manchester City, who don't have to play this week.
Data Debrief: Elanga chases wasteful visitors
Together with Danny Welbeck from Brighton, Elanga is the second player to score a Premier League goal this season against United and previously represented them in the competition.
It is the third time that two former Red Devils have scored against them in the same Premier League campaign, after 1997-98 (Mark Hughes, Dion Dublin) and 2020-21 (Wilfried Zaha, Welbeck).
But United only had to blame himself after he had not converted with one of their 24 shots – their most in a Premier League match without scoring since September 2021 against Aston Villa (28).
It is also their joint record (from 2003-04) in an away game without scoring in the competition (also 24 in West Ham in December 2006, and in Portsmouth in both April 2004 and October 2004).
In the meantime, Forest has held 13 clean sheets in the Premier League this campaign, more than any other side and their joints in every season in the competition (also 1994-95).
Match -Events
0 'The game is about to start!
5 'goal! Elanga scores against his former club! Nottingham Forest 1-0 MAN UTD
17 'Match event for Nottingham Forest vs Man Utd
27 'Close! Dalot's header touches the bar from Bruno's corner
41 'Bruno and Yates have some conflicts on the field
46 'A change for Man United during the break while Rasmus Hojlund stands up for Ugarte
47 'Hojlund shoots from a tight corner and this is brought back behind a corner
49 'Casemiro glides in and catches Yates with the Brazilian shown a yellow card
50 'Casemiro unleashes an attempt of 30 meters while it flies miles wide
51 'Gibbs-White has a chance of the home team, but cannot touch the goal
58 'Close! Garnacho cuts inside, but it zips across the top
66 'Highlight of Nottingham Forest vs Man Utd
69 'Highlight of Nottingham Forest vs Man Utd
70 'Garnachos strike with the goal is a bit wild
72 'Neco Williams throws himself to the ball to get the block on Garnacho
77 'Zirkzee goes out for Mount, who had injury problems since he came to United
80 'Close! Mount tries to curl it in the corner, but sees his strike just going wide
85 'Anthony Elanga is being replaced by Ibrahim Sangare
87 'Harry Maguire started the last few minutes and replaces Leny Yoro
Line-ups
Nottingham Forest XI: Sels, Aina, Taiwo Awoniyi, Elliot Anderson, Milenkovic, Gibbs-White, Ryan Yates, Neco Williams, Anthony Elaanga, Danilo, Murillo, Murillo, Murillo
Subs: Boly, Álex Moreno, Harry Toffolo, Sangare, Dominguez, Jota Silva, Carlos Miguel, Morato, Ramón Sosa
Man Utd XI: Casemiro, Bruno Fernandes, Onana, Mazraoui, De Ligt, Dalot, Ugarte, Zirkzee, Garnacho, Yoro, Patrick Dorgu
Subs: Eriksen, Lindelof, Maguire, Mount, Altay Bayındır, Højlund, Collyer, Sékou Koné, Harry Amass
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