Nottingham Forest vs Man Utd LIVE score: Result from Carabao Cup semi-final as Rashford, Weghorst and Fernandes net

6 mins: Who else? What a brilliant run from Marcus Rashford.

Casemiro sends him the ball on the left wing and Rashford dinks the ball past Serge Aurier before flying down the line. He cuts inside and works the ball between Joe Worrall and Remo Freuler before smoking home and fine strike to beat Wayne Hennessey at the near post!

3 mins: Close! A pass back to Joe Worrall is terribly controlled by the centre-back which allows Bruno Fernandes to nick possession inside the Forest box.

He slides a pass into the six yard area but Scott McKenna is covering and boots the ball clear. That could have been an embarrassing mistake for the Nottingham Forest captain.

Manchester United get the ball rolling for this Carabao Cup semi-final first leg. They send the ball to Christian Eriksen who makes a run down the left channel and looks to feed the ball up to Marcus Rashford on the wing but overhits his pass.

Here come the teams! Joe Worrall leads out the home side with Bruno Fernandes captaining Manchester United once again.

There’s a fantastic atmosphere at the City Ground. The place is buzzing. Forest will believe that they can win this game at home and put all the pressure on United for the second leg.

Kick off is up next.

Marcus Rashford has scored nine goals in all competitions since the World Cup finished, the most of any player in Europe’s big five leagues.

They are the unstoppable, the unfit and the unconvincing. Erik ten Hag’s first-choice forward line consists of a trio of very different parts, of one at the peak of form and fitness, another who plays too infrequently and a third who does not play well often enough; for outsiders’ liking, if not necessarily Ten Hag’s, anyway.

His preferred attack, even before Manchester United and Cristiano Ronaldo parted ways, is formed of Marcus Rashford, Anthony Martial and Antony.

The first semi-final of the new regime will occur without the oft-sidelined Frenchman, who will miss a third successive game since the Manchester derby, who has not played 90 minutes in a competitive match under Ten Hag and yet who, since some auspicious displays in pre-season, has convinced the Dutchman he has qualities he wants to lead the line.

Manchester United have had an easier time of things in this competition. As they’re playing in Europe this season they entered the competition at the third round stage.

Anthony Martial, Marcus Rashford, Bruno Fernandes and Scott McTominay all scored in a 4-2 victory over Aston Villa at Old Trafford.

Rashford was on the scoresheet once again when the Red Devils defeated Championship leaders Burnley 2-0 in the fourth round before completing his record of scoring in each league cup game this year but bagging a brace in the quarter-final against Charlton.

Rashford score two that night with Antony also chipping in with a goal.

Nottingham Forest entered the Carabao Cup at the second round stage and were drawn at home to face Grimsby. Ryan Yates and Sam Surridge (2) both got on the scoresheet in a 3-0 win.

The third round saw Forest host Tottenham with Renan Lodi and Jesse Lingard taking them past the tricky encounter to set up a fourth round tie against Blackburn.

Forest were successful once again with Brennan Johnson (2), Taiwo Awoniyi and Lingard again scoring in the 4-1 win away from home.

The quarter-final saw Forest sneak past Wolves after the teams drew 1-1 following the 90 minutes. The fixture went to a penalty shootout with Forest winning 4-3.

Manchester United’s head coach, Erik ten Hag, says he want the club to get back to winning trophies and has targeted the Carabao Cup as a potential trophy that United can win this year.

That much is clear by United’s starting XI tonight but the boss spoke about what he is expecting from tonight’s match.

“It’s about that, it’s about winning trophies.” said Ten Hag,

“We have a good opportunity, but we have to go from game to game. So now we play Forest, two legs, so focus on the first leg and don’t think further ahead because that will distract. So, the only aim for tomorrow is win that game. “Well, it’s a long time ago that United played there. But I think we like that, a fanatical audience, it’s nice to play for. It will be a good atmosphere, I think that will motivate the players and we have to get ready for that.”

Manchester United are in the house. They are the favourites to win the competition this season but can Erik ten Hag’s men live up to their hype?

United have lost just one game out of their previous 11 in all competitions however that defeat came last time out against Arsenal in the Premier League.