Manchester City journey to the Metropolis Floor figuring out a victory would take them to the summit of the Premier League, for just a few hours no less than.
Pep Guardiola’s facet come into the sport on a five-game successful run within the high flight, having most not too long ago beat 3-0 West Ham on 20 December.
Forest, in the meantime, can be trying to bounce again after a slender 1-0 defeat to Fulham final trip. The hosts have had one thing of a resurgence beneath Sean Dyche and can be aiming to maneuver additional away from the relegation zone with a constructive consequence right here.
Learn on to see how the 2 groups line up for this intriguing conflict.
Nottingham Forest staff information
Dyche makes one change from the facet that began in opposition to Fulham with Nicolas Dominguez coming in for Douglas Luiz.
Centre-back Willy Boly and midfielder Ibrahim Sangare are on the Africa Cup of Nations 2025 representing Ivory Coast.
Nottingham Forest: John Victor, Savona, Milenkovic, Murillo, Williams, Dominguez, Anderson, Hutchinson, Gibbs-White (C), Hudson-Odoi, Igor Jesus
Subs: Sels, Morato, Awoniyi, Douglas Luiz, Kalimuendo, McAtee, Bakwa, Zinchenko, Abbott
Manchester Metropolis staff information
Guardiola names the identical staff that beat the Hammers 3-0 final trip.
Influential midfielder Rodri is known as among the many substitutes for the primary time since that includes in opposition to Bournemouth in the beginning of November.
Rayan Ait-Nouri (Algeria) and ahead Omar Marmoush are away at AFCON.
Man Metropolis: Donnarumma, Nunes, Dias, Gvardiol, O’Reilly, Nico, Bernardo (C), Reijnders, Foden, Cherki, Haaland,
Subs: Trafford, Ake, Rodri, Savinho, Khusanov, McAidoo, Mukasa, Lewis, R. Heskey
Easy methods to watch Forest v Man Metropolis: TV channel, dwell on-line stream
Kick-off on Saturday is at 12:30 GMT (07:30 ET / 04:30 PT). Stay TV protection within the UK is on TNT Sports activities 1, TNT Sports activities Final and the Discovery Plus app.
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Nottingham Forest v Man Metropolis stats
- Having crushed Metropolis 1-0 in March, Forest are focusing on consecutive league wins within the fixture for the primary time since September 1995
- Forest have taken 11 factors from their final 12 residence matches (W3 D2 L7), with solely West Ham (9) and Wolves (8) gaining fewer amongst sides who had been additionally within the Premier League final season
- They’ve gained their final 4 Premier League matches performed between Christmas and New Yr, all beneath Nuno Espírito Santo in 2023 and 2024
- The latest of these was on December 29 final 12 months in opposition to Dyche’s Everton
- Dyche has misplaced 14 and drawn two of his conferences with Guardiola. Solely Steve Bruce in opposition to Alex Ferguson (17) has managed extra video games in opposition to one supervisor with no single victory within the Premier League
- Metropolis have failed to attain in half of their Premier League away video games in opposition to Nottingham Forest (3 of 6) however have prevented defeat after they’ve netted (W2 D1)
- The Cityzens are undefeated in 10 Premier League matches between Christmas and New Yr (W8 D2) since dropping 3-2 to Wolves on December 27 2019
- They’ve gained every of their final three leage video games 3-0, final successful extra consecutively with out conceding in February 2021 (6)
- No staff in English top-flight historical past has ever gained 4 in a row by no less than three targets to nil
- Erling Haaland has 5 targets in six Premier League appearances versus Nottingham Forest, though 60% of these got here within the Norway talisman’s first recreation in opposition to them in August 2022, when he netted a hat-trick from 4 makes an attempt
- The division high scorer has two targets from 10 photographs in his final 5 video games in opposition to Forest
- He has 19 targets in 17 Premier League video games for Manchester Metropolis this season. The one participant within the competitors’s historical past to attain 20 earlier than the tip of the 12 months in a marketing campaign is Haaland himself (21 in 2022/23)
