Nottingham Forest 2-2 Manchester United (Gibbs-White 48′, Savona 50′ | Casemiro 34’, Amad 81’)

CITY GROUND — When teams are trailing by one goal, with tiring bodies struggling to turn things around, it represents the moments where managers earn their keep.

Ruben Amorim’s dilemma is more a luxury in the unrelenting world of elite-level football. With no European dates to navigate and having become the latest big fish to be battered in Grimsby, squad rotation does not have to come into his thinking.

Injuries have, incongruously for Manchester United, become rare. Luke Shaw is playing successive football matches, Mason Mount is available every week.

That leaves Amorim, if things don’t go to plan, with a multitude of cavalry options, the number of which the Duke of Wellington never had

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