Nottingham Forest may have suffered FA Youth Cup heartbreak as they were beaten 3-1 at Old Trafford by Manchester United, but the young Reds showed there was plenty of be optimistic about despite the result.
When United skipper Rhys Bennett headed the hosts in-front, they could have buckled under the pressure and gone on to be beaten heavily. Instead, Warren Joyce's side showed character to fight back and level the scores when Joshua Powell's strike from distance trickled under Radek Vitek's arms in the United goal.
Forest gave a good account of themselves again in the second half. Detlef Esapa-Osong, the provider of so many of Forest Under-18s' goals this season - proved dangerous up-front, as did Dale Taylor and Sam Collins out-wide.
