Man United vs nottm Forest

Minute-by-minute report: Who will book their place in this year's League Cup final? Find out with Scott Murray.

Johnson bursts in from the right, past Casemiro and Martinez and into the box. Still, Forest have had a couple of big chances now to open the scoring. Dennis swivels and sends a shot towards the bottom right. Weghorst rises unmarked on the penalty spot, and guides a nearly perfect header across Hennessey and … Casemiro opens his body on the edge of the box and attempts to steer a sidefoot into the bottom left. Casemiro swings a cross in from the right. 55 min: Johnson dribbles hard down the right and wins a corner from which nothing comes. The set piece is swung into the mixer for Casemiro, who wins a header on the penalty spot but sends a harmless effort wide right. Meanwhile Fernandes flashes a shot across the face of goal from the right. 70 min: Martial chases a Casemiro pass down the inside right. but before it we have a lot of games to come … but we are making forward steps and there are lots of teams who would have loved to play in a semi-final against United …

The winner of this tie between Manchester United and Nottingham Forest will face Newcastle United in the final of the Carabao Cup.

5th min: United start the match with a prolonged period of possession, ending in a long pass from Lisandro Martinez that almost put Bruno Fernandes in on goal. 18th min: Alejandro Garnacho shows quick feet in the box and goes to ground, but there wasn't much contact and a goal kick is given. 21st min: One of the joys of Forest games is listening to fans squeezing extra syllables into well-known refrains rather than shorten the name of the team. 25th min: A Bruno Fernandes corner is half-cleared, and Emmanuel Dennis bizarrely plays it the way he's facing when in space. The Forest keeper sticks out his right foot to save and the rebound just evades Lisandro Martinez. Jadon Sancho has just come out for a warm-up and gets a loud round of applause from the Stretford End. Luke Shaw delivers a free-kick from the left and Casemiro nods it low and back across goal. Brennan Johnson managed to worm his way past Casemiro's challenge and suddenly he was through on goal, but he shot straight at the United keeper from a narrow angle. HT: The half ends with a booking for Sam Surridge for a late challenge on Raphael Varane. He delays his pass to Marcus Rashford and eventually underhits it, but the ball is blocked back into Martial's path and he fires left-footed into the bottom-right corner. The Forest defender was about to clear the ball when Wout Weghorst nicked it away, and he swung his foot right into the United striker. The rebound falls to Surridge, but he's stretching to turn it back towards goal and he can't control the strike, which flies over the bar.

Get a report of the Manchester United vs. Nottingham Forest 2022-23 English Carabao Cup, Semifinals football match.

[Marcus Rashford](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/230945/Marcus-Rashford) and [David de Gea](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/108482/David-de-Gea) starting on the bench. [Brennan Johnson](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/291307/Brennan-Johnson), just as he had been in the first leg, was Forest's biggest threat. [Jadon Sancho](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/259836/Jadon-Sancho) his first appearance since Oct. But Ten Hag's introduction of Rashford, Sancho and Martial just past the hour-mark prompted a sharp increase in the home side's attacking threat. It did not take long for the deadlock to be broken. Just three minutes later, Rashford had a second assist. The on-loan striker, who scored United's second goal at the City Ground last week, watched on in frustration, though, as the ball came back off the foot of the post. After spending time away from the team to work on physical and mental issues, the [England](/soccer/team?id=448) winger received a large cheer from the Old Trafford crowd as he ran on for his return. It took until the closing stages of the first half for either goalkeeper to be properly called into action. "The second half was much better, more tempo and we made some good goals. "I thought it was professional but too slow and we didn't create too many chances. Otherwise, though, it was another strong starting lineup that included the likes of [Casemiro](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/173666/Casemiro), [Bruno Fernandes](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/124091/Bruno-Fernandes) and [Raphael Varane](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/153053/Raphaël-Varane).