diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpClient/CHANGELOG.md b/src/Symfony/Component/HttpClient/CHANGELOG.md
index 2c4b706914..8b8bbdf8cd 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpClient/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/HttpClient/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ CHANGELOG
  * added `NoPrivateNetworkHttpClient` decorator
  * added `AmpHttpClient`, a portable HTTP/2 implementation based on Amp
  * added `LoggerAwareInterface` to `ScopingHttpClient` and `TraceableHttpClient`
+ * made `HttpClient::create()` return an `AmpHttpClient` when `amphp/http-client` is found but curl is not or too old
 
 4.4.0
 -----
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpClient/HttpClient.php b/src/Symfony/Component/HttpClient/HttpClient.php
index b8ce62a233..405c18ce92 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpClient/HttpClient.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/HttpClient/HttpClient.php
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 
 namespace Symfony\Component\HttpClient;
 
+use Amp\Http\Client\Connection\ConnectionLimitingPool;
 use Symfony\Contracts\HttpClient\HttpClientInterface;
 
 /**
@@ -29,6 +30,25 @@ final class HttpClient
      */
     public static function create(array $defaultOptions = [], int $maxHostConnections = 6, int $maxPendingPushes = 50): HttpClientInterface
     {
+        if ($amp = class_exists(ConnectionLimitingPool::class)) {
+            if (!\extension_loaded('curl')) {
+                return new AmpHttpClient($defaultOptions, null, $maxHostConnections, $maxPendingPushes);
+            }
+
+            // Skip curl when HTTP/2 push is unsupported or buggy, see https://bugs.php.net/77535
+            if (\PHP_VERSION_ID < 70217 || (\PHP_VERSION_ID >= 70300 && \PHP_VERSION_ID < 70304) || !\defined('CURLMOPT_PUSHFUNCTION')) {
+                return new AmpHttpClient($defaultOptions, null, $maxHostConnections, $maxPendingPushes);
+            }
+
+            static $curlVersion = null;
+            $curlVersion = $curlVersion ?? curl_version();
+
+            // HTTP/2 push crashes before curl 7.61
+            if (0x073d00 > $curlVersion['version_number'] || !(CURL_VERSION_HTTP2 & $curlVersion['features'])) {
+                return new AmpHttpClient($defaultOptions, null, $maxHostConnections, $maxPendingPushes);
+            }
+        }
+
         if (\extension_loaded('curl')) {
             if ('\\' !== \DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR || ini_get('curl.cainfo') || ini_get('openssl.cafile') || ini_get('openssl.capath')) {
                 return new CurlHttpClient($defaultOptions, $maxHostConnections, $maxPendingPushes);
@@ -37,6 +57,10 @@ final class HttpClient
             @trigger_error('Configure the "curl.cainfo", "openssl.cafile" or "openssl.capath" php.ini setting to enable the CurlHttpClient', E_USER_WARNING);
         }
 
+        if ($amp) {
+            return new AmpHttpClient($defaultOptions, null, $maxHostConnections, $maxPendingPushes);
+        }
+
         return new NativeHttpClient($defaultOptions, $maxHostConnections);
     }
 
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpClient/Internal/AmpClientState.php b/src/Symfony/Component/HttpClient/Internal/AmpClientState.php
index 6fa8a2fc20..afd4c88fb8 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpClient/Internal/AmpClientState.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/HttpClient/Internal/AmpClientState.php
@@ -161,7 +161,9 @@ final class AmpClientState extends ClientState
         };
         $connector->connector = new DnsConnector(new AmpResolver($this->dnsCache));
 
-        $context = (new ConnectContext())->withTlsContext($context);
+        $context = (new ConnectContext())
+            ->withTcpNoDelay()
+            ->withTlsContext($context);
 
         if ($options['bindto']) {
             if (file_exists($options['bindto'])) {
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpClient/Tests/HttpClientTest.php b/src/Symfony/Component/HttpClient/Tests/HttpClientTest.php
index e2b0d9f6eb..bd7b83ce3a 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpClient/Tests/HttpClientTest.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/HttpClient/Tests/HttpClientTest.php
@@ -12,18 +12,18 @@
 namespace Symfony\Component\HttpClient\Tests;
 
 use PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase;
+use Symfony\Component\HttpClient\AmpHttpClient;
 use Symfony\Component\HttpClient\CurlHttpClient;
 use Symfony\Component\HttpClient\HttpClient;
-use Symfony\Component\HttpClient\NativeHttpClient;
 
 class HttpClientTest extends TestCase
 {
     public function testCreateClient()
     {
-        if (\extension_loaded('curl') && ('\\' !== \DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR || ini_get('curl.cainfo') || ini_get('openssl.cafile') || ini_get('openssl.capath'))) {
+        if (\extension_loaded('curl') && ('\\' !== \DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR || ini_get('curl.cainfo') || ini_get('openssl.cafile') || ini_get('openssl.capath')) && 0x073d00 <= curl_version()['version_number']) {
             $this->assertInstanceOf(CurlHttpClient::class, HttpClient::create());
         } else {
-            $this->assertInstanceOf(NativeHttpClient::class, HttpClient::create());
+            $this->assertInstanceOf(AmpHttpClient::class, HttpClient::create());
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpClient/composer.json b/src/Symfony/Component/HttpClient/composer.json
index e6fadb1941..47ddbcaa2e 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpClient/composer.json
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/HttpClient/composer.json
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
         "symfony/service-contracts": "^1.0|^2"
     },
     "require-dev": {
-        "amphp/http-client": "^4.2",
+        "amphp/http-client": "^4.2.1",
         "amphp/http-tunnel": "^1.0",
         "amphp/socket": "^1.1",
         "guzzlehttp/promises": "^1.3.1",