Manchester City will be aiming to make it back-to-back wins in the Premier League when they welcome Nottingham Forest to the Etihad Stadium on Wednesday night. The reigning champions will enter the contest off the back of a 4-2 victory over Crystal Palace on Saturday, while Forest suffered a 2-0 defeat at home to Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday.
Manchester City have been making life hard for themselves of late and will be hoping for a more straightforward evening when playing host to Nottingham Forest. The reigning Premier League champions have dropped just two points through an unbeaten four-game run at the start of the 2022-23 campaign, but have already had to recover from falling two goals down on a couple of occasions.
Newly-promoted Forest will want to take advantage of any more defensive mishaps at the Etihad Stadium.
How To Watch
Match: Man City vs Nottingham Forest
Date & Time: August 31 @ 02:30 PM (ET)
Venue: Etihad Stadium
TV Channel: BT Sport 3 & BT Sport 5
Online Streaming: BT Sport App & Peacock Premium (Try for free)
Watch in Canada: fubo Sports Network Canada
Team News
Manchester City: Aymeric Laporte remains sidelined with a knee injury for City, while Jack Grealish, Kalvin Phillips and Luke Mbete-Tabu are also doubts.
Nathan Ake should shake off a groin complaint in time to make Pep Guardiola’s plans, while Ilkay Gundogan could be included from the off as Bernardo Silva is given a well-earned rest.
Phil Foden and Riyad Mahrez will want to partner six-goal Erling Haaland in attack once more, but Argentine forward Julian Alvarez is pushing for a first Premier League start.
Nottingham Forest: New signing Renan Lodi could make the bench for the Reds, but Moussa Niakhate and Omar Richards are missing through injury and Orel Mangala sat out a 2-0 defeat to Tottenham over the weekend.
Remo Freuler is in contention for a starting berth, with it possible that Steve Cooper will once again look to shuffle his pack.
Taiwo Awoniyi and Emmanuel Dennis are looking to lead the line, with Jesse Lingard, Morgan Gibbs-White and Brennan Johnson all competing for attacking berths.
Head to Head
- This is the first meeting between Manchester City and Nottingham Forest since second-tier Forest won an FA Cup third-round tie 3-0 at the Etihad Stadium on 3 January 2009.
- City and Forest are in the same league together for the first time since 2001-02 in the second tier. The Citizens took four points out of six that season, drawing 1-1 at the City Ground and triumphing 3-0 at Maine Road.
- The Blues' only win in six Premier League encounters with Forest was a 2-0 victory away from home on 27 February 1993. All three games in Manchester have been drawn.
Prediction: It is Manchester City at home, so I predict a high-scoring win but it is just whether they take the foot off their gas.
They are an incredible team. Newcastle took the game to them but they came back at them and did the same against Palace to get the win.
Erling Haaland is scoring goals and I think Nottingham Forest will go and have a go but that will play into City's hands. I think they will get back to clean sheets here as well as getting the win.
Manchester City 6 - 0 Nottingham Forest