Marcus Rashford's sensational scoring streak continued at the City Ground as Manchester United closed in on an EFL Cup final appearance at Wembley next month with a three-goal victory over Nottingham Forest.
Rashford's brilliant solo effort gave United the advantage six minutes into the first leg of the semi-final.
Wout Weghorst added a second just before the break with his first goal for the club and Bruno Fernandes wrapped up the scoring a minute from time to provide Erik ten Hag's men with a healthy advantage for the return at Old Trafford in seven days' time as United look to end a trophy drought stretching back to 2017.
United centre-back Lisandro Martinez later said: "I'm really happy with the job from the guys. We played so good today and we controlled the game. We lost the last game so we had to produce now and as a team we did.
"We know [Forest] is doing a really good job but we never gave up. Today we won the game and that's the most important thing.
"You can see when we do the right things we don't concede goals. We controlled the game but we still have many things to improve on and we have to keep going.
"I'm really happy because we showed discipline and I saw [for] the whole game we were pretty focused. We have to play always like this, keep going and keep fighting.
"We know it's a good result for us but we have to take it step-by-step."
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