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Manchester City going to the City Ground knowing that a victory would take them to the top of the Premier Leaguefor at least a few hours.
Pep Guardiola’s side come into the match on the back of a five-game winning run in the top flight, having beaten West Ham 3-0 on December 20.
Forest, meanwhile, will be looking to bounce back from a narrow 1-0 defeat to Fulham last time out. The hosts have enjoyed something of a resurgence under Sean Dyche and will aim to move further away from the relegation zone with a positive result here.
Read on to see how the two teams line up for this intriguing matchup.
Nottingham Forest team news
Dyche makes one change from the side that started against Fulham with Nicolas Dominguez replacing Douglas Luiz.
Center back Willy Boly and midfielder Ibrahim Sangaré are participating in the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations to represent Ivory Coast.
Nottingham Forest: John Victor, Savona, Milenkovic, Murillo, Williams, Dominguez, Anderson, Hutchinson, Gibbs-White (C), Hudson-Odoi, Igor Jesus
Submarines: Salts, Morato, What, Douglas Luiz, Kalimuendo, McAtee, Bakwa, Zinchenko, Abbott
Manchester City team news
Guardiola names the same team that beat the Hammers 3-0 last time out.
Influential midfielder Rodri is named among the substitutes for the first time since his match against Bournemouth in early November.
Rayan Ait-Nouri (Algeria) and striker Omar Marmoush are absent at the CAN.
City of Man: Donnarum, Nuns, Dias, Garden, O’Reilly, Bernard (C), Reijders, Foden, Cherry, Haaland,
Submarines: Trafford, Ake, Rodri, Savinho, Khusanov, McAidoo, Mukasa, Lewis, R. Heskey
How to watch Forest v Man City: TV channel, live stream online
Kick-off on Saturday will be at 12:30 GMT (07:30 ET / 04:30 PT). Live TV coverage in the UK is provided on TNT Sports 1, TNT Sports Ultimate and the Discovery Plus app.
TNT Sports costs £29.99 per month via discovery+which includes Eurosport and entertainment and is available on a huge range of devices including smart TVs and games consoles.
Nottingham Forest vs Man City Stats
- After beating City 1-0 in March, Forest are aiming for back-to-back league wins for the first time since September 1995.
- Forest have taken 11 points from their last 12 home matches (W3 D2 L7), with only West Ham (9) and Wolves (8) having gained fewer among teams who were also in the Premier League last season.
- They have won their last four Premier League matches played between Christmas and New Year, all under the management of Nuno Espírito Santo in 2023 and 2024.
- The most recent of these came on December 29 last year against Dyche’s Everton.
- Dyche has lost 14 and drawn two of his meetings with Guardiola. Only Steve Bruce vs Alex Ferguson (17) has managed more games against a manager without a single Premier League win
- City failed to score in half of their Premier League away matches against Nottingham Forest (3 out of 6), but avoided defeat by scoring (W2 D1).
- The Cityzens are unbeaten in 10 Premier League matches between Christmas and New Year (8 wins, 2 draws) since their 3-2 defeat against Wolves on December 27, 2019.
- They have won each of their last three league games 3-0, most recently posting consecutive wins without conceding a goal in February 2021 (6).
- No team in the history of the English top flight has ever won four in a row by at least three goals to nil.
- Erling Haaland has five goals in six Premier League matches against Nottingham Forest, although 60% of those came in the Norwegian talisman’s first game against them in August 2022, when he scored a hat-trick from four attempts.
- The division’s top scorer has scored two goals from 10 shots in his last five games against Forest.
- He has 19 goals in 17 Premier League games for Manchester City this season. The only player in the history of the competition to have scored 20 before the end of the year during a campaign is Haaland himself (21 in 2022/23).
