The result sees Chelsea move up to eighth in the table, six points adrift of fourth-placed Tottenham with Bournemouth remaining in 14th. The only negative in Potter's and Chelsea's evening came with the earlier-than-planned withdrawal of Reece James, seven minutes into the second period, on his return from the knee injury that ruled him out of the England squad for Qatar. The 23-year-old lay on the turf with his hands on his head before receiving treatment and eventually walking off unaided. Posted at 22:41 27 Dec 2022'We want to win trophies again'FT: Manchester United 3-0 Nottingham ForestManchester UnitedManchester United forward Marcus Rashford, speaking to BBC Match of the Day: "Football is very up and down and you have to learn to try and control you emotions, sometimes it's difficult.

Having failed to score in three consecutive matches prior to the break for the World Cup it took Chelsea less than 16 minutes to get up and running with Kai Havertz sliding in an effort at the back post from Raheem Sterling's low cross. With the hosts dominant, Mason Mount celebrated his 150th appearance for Chelsea in style, curling a superb effort into the bottom right corner of the Bournemouth net from the edge of the penalty area. It drew a nod of satisfaction from manager Graham Potter, who will have been delighted by the slick performance his side delivered, particularly during the first half. Christian Pulisic saw an effort ruled out after Havertz was judged to have fouled Adam Smith, while the German also spurned a second-half opportunity to extend Chelsea's lead.

"Posted at 22:26 27 Dec 2022'No surprise about Casemiro's performance'FT: Manchester United 3-0 Nottingham ForestPatrice EvraFormer Manchester United defender on Amazon PrimeCasemiro is the heart of this team. It took long for him to start, I remember at the beginning of the season every fan didn't understand why Casemiro wasn't starting but now you can see. He is a player who has won five Champions League's so I am not surprised about this performance. Posted at 22:25 27 Dec 2022We need to be more clinical - Ten HagFT: Manchester United 3-0 Nottingham ForestManchester UnitedManchester United manager Erik ten Hag, speaking to Amazon Prime: "It is a pleasure to work with Casemiro and everyone sees how important his role is and the level he brings into the team. "I think the players grow into the season and I think they performed well in the World Cup and now they continue.

There are many games to come, you can then save energy and is better for everyone. For the progress of the team we need to be more clinical. "You can see Martial and Rashford are goalscorers, Bruno Fernandes will score goals, but we have to be ruthless. "Posted at 22:23 27 Dec 2022'We conceded two poor goals'FT: Manchester United 3-0 Nottingham ForestNottingham ForestNottingham Forest midfielder Ryan Yates, speaking to Amazon Prime: "To be honest in the end it's probably fair. We conceded two poor goals in the first half which was a bit of a kick in the teeth. We got together, regrouped. Obviously we scored then it got ruled out and we thought about getting to half time.

You see it in the training also, now we have to put it on the pitch. "I think everyone has their role [in providing chances], the midfield, the full-backs, I will do everything to keep doing that. "On the importance of the clean sheet: "It was different to normal and you see we have a lot of quality, even with this back four we could keep the clean sheet.

But I want to keep the freshness and save him after so long out. "On signing a new striker in January: "We are always in the market but it has to match the sporting criteria and the financial criteria. We do what we can to bring in the player we need. "On Cody Gakpo, who is set to join Liverpool after being linked with a move to Manchester United: "I don't talk about individual cases. We are looking for offensive players, looking for a striker, that would be good because we have so many games coming. "We want to keep playing in all the competitions we are in, we want to keep going to the end of the season so you need numbers to keep competing.

Stay in the performance, stay in the level, keep progressing game to game. "On United scoring their first goal from a pre-planned corner routine: "It is important in football today that you score from set plays and don't concede from them, we have to be good in them. It decides games. On whether they could be more clinical: "We have to score more goals, we created so many chances and it take us just before the end to score the third goal, we need to take this moment earlier. "Just before half-time we had two really good chances to finish the game.

Happy with that because it is always the base to compete. We could have scored more goals definitely. We had some great attacks, lots of movement. When you have one on ones with the keeper, you have to score more goals. On Marcus Rashford: "It was not only Rashford but I'm really happy with his performance once again. He is in a really good pattern and if he keeps with this pattern and spirit, it is good for us and good for him.

"On the front four that started tonight: "We want players in but that front four has not played much together in the first part of the season. If we can bring them together more often on the pitch, I'm sure they will progress and get routines together and score more goals. "On Luke Shaw playing at centre-back: "Shaw told me last week he can play there and said to put him in there. He played there really well, he looked really experienced and composed and it was a really good performance from him.