Antony might have had his breakthrough moment at Manchester United

When Herschelle Gibbs dropped Steve Waugh at Headingley in 1999, Waugh ostensibly quipped, "You've just dropped the World Cup."

Waugh never said those words but the apocryphal tale endures. Bukayo Saka might have dropped the Premier League trophy with his spooned penalty at the London Stadium on Sunday.

The peaks and troughs of sport never cease to amaze. One-hundred-and-twenty-three miles away in Nottingham, another left-footed right winger scythed through the trees to deforest Forest.

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Antony has been unfavourably compared with Saka, a shoo-in for the Premier League's team of the season, but his performance at the City ground was a possible breakthrough in his Manchester United career.

On a day Forest celebrated 50 years of their Tricky Tree crest, Antony mastered his one trick. This correspondent wrote, coincidentally after United won at the City Ground in the League Cup in January, that Antony mimicked Arjen Robben that night.

That was a comparison Erik ten Hag endorsed on Sunday. "He is so good on the inside. So I've seen, for instance, Arjen Robben a lot. They say he had only one trick but that one trick was so brilliant no one can stop it.

"We have to emphasise, of course, if you can go both ways you have more variations, you are more difficult to stop. But to improve the trick you are really good at, his first yards with the ball as he dribbles are so outstanding I think they're so difficult to defend. So he has to keep doing that."

A first Premier League goal in 15 games and a first Premier League assist is ample proof of a progressive step for Antony. More pleasing for Ten Hag will be the manner of those contributions.

Antony sprinted past Renan Lodi as soon as Bruno