📊 Form Guide

Nottingham Forest

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Nottingham Forest are hoping to win again following a 1-2 Premier League triumph versus Tottenham Hotspur.

In that game, Nottingham Forest managed 30% possession and 4 shots on goal with 3 on target. For Nottingham Forest, goals were scored by Elliot Anderson (5') and Chris Wood (16'). Tottenham Hotspur got 22 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. Richarlison (87') scored for Tottenham Hotspur.

Nuno Espírito Santo's Nottingham Forest have managed to score 8 times over their prior six outings. The comparative number of goals that have been scored against them in those games is 6.

Manchester City

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Manchester City will come into the game following a 2-1 Premier League win with the downing of Aston Villa in their last fixture.

In that game, Manchester City managed 62% possession and 14 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. For Manchester City, the scorers were Bernardo Silva (7') and Matheus Nunes (94'). For their opponents, Aston Villa had 7 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. Marcus Rashford (18') scored for Aston Villa.

A run of effective performances from the Manchester City defensive unit has seen their ‘goals against’ tally amounting to 4 from their previous 6 outings combined. Over that same period, their own forwards have managed to score 13. We shall soon see whether or not that trend can be sustained here.

↔️ Head to head

An examination of their past head to head meetings stretching back to 31/08/2022 shows us that Nottingham Forest have won 1 of these and Manchester City 4, with the tally of drawn results standing at 1.

16 goals were scored between them during those clashes, with 2 from The Reds and 14 belonging to The Citizens. That’s an average goals per game of 2.67.

The previous league clash featuring these sides was Premier League match day 28 on 08/03/2025 which finished with the scoreline of Nottingham Forest 1-0 Manchester City.

On that occasion, Nottingham Forest managed 31% possession and 9 attempts on goal with 4 on target. Their only player to score was Callum Hudson-Odoi (83').

On the other side, Manchester City had 14 shots on goal with 3 on target.

The match was refereed by Chris Kavanagh.

📋 Team News: Nottingham Forest

In all likelihood, The Reds could go for a 4-3-3 formation for this one, beginning the first half with Matz Sels, Zach Abbott, Nikola Milenkovic, Murillo, Harry Toffolo, Nicolas Dominguez, Danilo, Elliot Anderson, Morgan Gibbs-White, Chris Wood and Callum Hudson-Odoi.

🗞️ Team News: Manchester City

Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola has to choose a team with limited availability. Ederson (Hip problems), John Stones (Hamstring injury), Erling Haaland (Ankle injury), Nathan Aké (Foot surgery) and Rodri (Cruciate ligament tear) are names that won’t be on the team sheet.

We believe The Citizens could decide to make use of a 4-2-3-1 system, giving starts to Stefan Ortega, Matheus Nunes, Ruben Dias, Josko Gvardiol, Nico O'Reilly, Mateo Kovacic, Rico Lewis, Savinho, Bernardo Silva, Jack Grealish and Omar Marmoush.

✨ Prediction

We believe that Nottingham Forest have enough to breach the defence of this Manchester City side, however a single goal probably won’t be enough to give them the result that they want.

Therefore, we think that it’s going to be a tight encounter finishing with a 1-2 advantage for Manchester City at the end of the 90 minutes. It should be a decent one.

Peter Guest, 15:01 27/04/2025