Man United get reality check as winning streak ends at Nottingham Forest

Janusz Michallik pumps the brakes on talk of Manchester United's resurgence as they're held to a 2-2 draw by Nottingham Forest. (1:42)

NOTTINGHAM, England -- Things can change very quickly when you're in charge of Manchester United.

In the space of three weeks, Ruben Amorim went from candidate for the sack to manager of the month nominee. At one point at the City Ground on Saturday, with United leading Nottingham Forest 1-0, Amorim's team sat second on the Premier League table and were Arsenal's closest challengers.

That was before the script flipped again and Forest scored twice in the space of 92 seconds in the second half. It took a stunning late equalizer from Amad Diallo to rescue a 2-2 draw as Amorim learned again about the ups and downs of life as United boss.

Afterwards, the Portuguese coach bemoaned the loss of two valuable points, but also chose to see the positives.

"I think we did some things well," Amorim said. "I think also that our level of energy, we dropped a little bit. And when our team drops a little bit, the energy, you can feel it. We can play well, but it's not in full power. But my feeling is that the players tried, really tried.

"They tried during the week and they tried today. In the past, if we had this kind of bad five minutes and we suffered two goals, we didn't recover. Today is a different feeling. You can sense that we could not win this game, but we are not going to lose. And that is a feeling that a big team sometimes has to have."

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Despite three wins in a row lifting United into the European places, Amorim walked into his weekly news conference at Carrington on Thursday armed with a warning. The past three weeks have been good, he said, but his team is at a stage in its development where things can switch in a flash. All of that was on show against Forest.

In the first half, United played with the confidence of a team which has just seen off Sunderland, Liverpool and Brighton. They deserved to be ahead at halftime, although the goal came about in controversial circumstances.