After Morgan Gibbs-White curled in Nottingham Forest’s fantastic winning goal with 82 minutes played, he celebrated by soaking up the adulation from the Trent End and putting his index fingers to his ears.
It is a tactic Erik ten Hag may need to utilise to shutout the never-ending noise surrounding his position and this flaky and unpredictable Manchester United side. It will only increase after this, a 14th defeat of the season. The last time they lost as many games before the turn of the year was 1930-31. Marcus Rashford cancelled out Nicolás Domínguez’s effort, giving United hope of staging another late comeback, but Gibbs-White wrapped his right foot around the ball from the edge of the box, in effect throwing another log on United’s fire.