Manchester United analysis: Defensive weakness exposed again

Amorim's face was a picture at the end, that of someone who couldn't compute what he had just seen.

A coach who likes to control everything had just been put through the Premier League washing machine by one of those games where little seems to make sense.

On the plus side, United are now five games unbeaten. On the negative, for the second week in succession they failed to win after leading at the break, this time after they had been in control of a game against opponents who, unlike them, were not benefiting from having had a full week to prepare.

They also conceded two goals for the third game in a row - Amorim said on Thursday the leaky defence was a concern and that something has to be done about it. The question is, what?

On Saturday his side suffered after Harry Maguire and Casemiro had gone off. Given neither man seems to be able to complete a full 90 minutes a solution must be found.

As at Forest, United were also undone by crosses, a failing which Amorim said his players had been working to correct this week.

Evidently, there is much more still to do.