Manchester United vs. Nottingham Forest – Football Match Report – February 1, 2023

Manchester United cruised into the ultimate of the Carabao Cup after finishing a 5-0 mixture win over Nottingham Forest with a 2-0 victory in Wednesday’s semifinal second leg at Old Trafford.

Substitute Anthony Martial and midfielder Fred scored fast-hearth second-half targets to place the seal on a tie that was successfully determined by Man United’s 3-0 win on the City Ground per week in the past.

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Erik ten Hag’s facet will now compete for his or her first trophy since 2017 once they tackle a Newcastle United group taking part in of their first main closing in 24 years within the showpiece at Wembley on Feb. 26.

“The first half wasn’t great to be honest,” Ten Hag advised Sky Sports. “I thought it was professional but too slow and we didn’t create too many chances.

“The second half was significantly better, extra tempo and we made some good targets. We simply need to enhance every single day. I believe we now have a great squad so we now have to demand and management the excessive requirements.”

Ten Hag, in search of a trophy in his first season at Old Trafford, opted handy a few key gamers a relaxation with Marcus Rashford and David de Gea beginning on the bench. Otherwise, although, it was one other sturdy beginning lineup that included the likes of Casemiro, Bruno Fernandes and Raphael Varane.

The United boss additionally used the final half-hour to offer Jadon Sancho his first look since Oct. 22. After spending time away from the group to work on bodily and psychological points, the England winger obtained a big cheer from the Old Trafford crowd as he ran on for his return.

Perhaps unsurprisingly given the one-sided nature of the primary leg, there was little attacking depth within the early happening Wednesday. It took till the closing phases of the primary half for both goalkeeper to be correctly known as into motion.

Casemiro compelled a low save from Wayne Hennessey within the Forest objective with a downward header earlier than Wout Weghorst went even nearer on the stroke of half-time with a headed effort of his personal from six yards out. The on-mortgage striker, who scored United’s second objective on the City Ground final week, watched on in frustration, although, because the ball got here again off the foot of the publish.

At the opposite finish, Brennan Johnson, simply as he had been within the first leg, was Forest’s greatest menace. The ahead’s velocity allowed him to get a shot at objective from the appropriate facet of the field after 34 minutes however the effort was straight at Tom Heaton, deputising for De Gea within the Man United objective.

For a lot of the second half, the principle speaking level was a operating battle between Alejandro Garnacho and Johnson. But Ten Hag’s introduction of Rashford, Sancho and Martial simply previous the hour-mark prompted a pointy enhance within the dwelling facet’s attacking menace.

It didn’t take lengthy for the impasse to be damaged. In the 73rd minute, Rashford noticed a shot blocked and Martial was available to slam dwelling the rebound.

Just three minutes later, Rashford had a second help. After a tremendous cross from the skin of his proper foot from Fernandes, Rashford helped the ball again throughout the face of objective permitting Fred to nudge it dwelling from barely a yard out.

Information from Reuters was used on this report.