Ruben Amorim insisted his Manchester United players are "giving everything, but have the potential to do better" following their 2-2 draw with Nottingham Forest.

The Red Devils saw their three-game winning streak in the Premier League brought to an end, after sharing the spoils at the City Ground.

United led through Casemiro's first-half header, but a poor start to the second half saw them concede twice in the space of two minutes to trail 2-1, until Amad Diallo's superb volley rescued a point.

The visitors missed the chance to move to second place in the table on what was the first anniversary of Amorim's appointment.

"If I think about the game, we lost control for five minutes," the United boss said. "I feel in the recent past, if we had had this situation [from 1-0 up and 2-1 down], we would have struggled so much more than today.

"My feeling is we played well, but we dropped a little bit of energy. When we have the full energy, we are the better team. My players are giving everything, but we have the potential to do better.

"Sometimes, we have these moments. In the end, we lost two points, and we need to get three points in the next game."

Meanwhile, Amad demonstrated his support for Amorim, whose side appear to have turned a corner in recent times, but could not hide his frustration at leaving the City Ground with one point instead of three.

"I don't know if it is the goal of the season," the winger said of his memorable strike. "We are really disappointed to go home with one point.

"We have confidence now. We believe in the manager and the system. We are trying to do our best. We believe in the manager like he believes in us."

There was also disappointment in the Forest dressing room, with the hosts believing Nicolo Savona prevented the ball from going behind for the corner that led to United's opening goal.

"It's not inconclusive. I've seen it back," head coach Sean Dyche said. "That's two decisions that are not right that have gone against us.

"They give corners that aren't corners. They gave one last week [in the 2-0 defeat at Bournemouth] and one this week. It's a really poor decision. That decides a lot. We are fighting for our lives to get up the table."

"To get a point is good, but the dressing room is frustrated not to get all three," added Morgan Gibbs-White. 

"We conceded two silly corners [from which they scored], I don't think the first one was even a corner. From where I was standing, I was pretty far away, all the boys were saying at half-time the ball hadn't gone out.

"It's something that needs looking at because it has cost us two extra points today. It's time to kick on. We need to start getting more points."