City come into this midweek clash in commanding form, having sealed a 1\u20130 victory at Leeds United at the weekend to extend their winning run and remain within sight of the summit. The Sky Blues have also been formidable at home in recent months, remaining unbeaten at the Etihad and clinching seven straight wins on their own turf.<\/p>\n
Despite the absence of talismanic striker Erling Haaland through injury, City have continued to tick, with summer signing Antoine Semenyo stepping up with decisive moments and linking well with creative outlets such as Phil Foden and Rayan Cherki. Guardiola will monitor fitness ahead of kick-off, especially on Haaland\u2019s recovery and Nico O\u2019Reilly\u2019s minor knock sustained on Saturday.<\/p>\n
On the other side, Forest have endured a trying season, lingering perilously above the relegation zone and flirting with trouble after a run of poor results, including a loss to Brighton & Hove Albion last time out. The Midlands outfit\u2019s defensive frailties have been exposed repeatedly, conceding emphatically in recent trips to face the Citizens and struggling to find consistency under new boss V\u00edtor Pereira.<\/p>\n
Manchester City possible starting lineup:<\/strong><\/p>\n Donnarumma; Nunes, Dias, Guehi, Ait-Nouri; Gonzalez; Cherki, Reijnders, Foden, Semenyo; Marmoush<\/p>\n Nottingham Forest possible starting lineup:<\/strong><\/p>\n Sels; Aina, Milenkovic, Murillo, Williams; Sangare, Anderson; Ndoye, Gibbs-White, Hudson-Odoi; Jesus<\/p>\n Prediction:<\/strong> Man City 2-0 Nottingham Forest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City come into this midweek clash in commanding form, having sealed a 1\u20130 victory at Leeds United at the weekend\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":44038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4650],"tags":[3918,1823,3796,527,3800,2464,359],"class_list":["post-44653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","tag-english-premier-league","tag-fabrizio-romano","tag-football","tag-man-city","tag-manchester-city","tag-nottingham-forest","tag-pep-guardiola"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44654,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44653\/revisions\/44654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}