Nottingham Forest vs Man City LIVE: Premier League result and reaction after Haaland scores in victory
City remain favourites for the title while the Reds are still battling against relegation
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Manchester City will seek to keep the pressure on Arsenal in the Premier League title race when they head to Nottingham Forest on Sunday evening - and could indeed jump above the Gunners, depending on their result earlier on against Tottenham.
With Liverpool having fallen away badly in the past few weeks, it’s now very much just a two-horse race in the final stretch, with City aiming to retain their title yet again. They are in fact in the hunt for the domestic double, given they will face Man United in the FA Cup final, too.
As for Forest, it’s still all about survival and they need to focus on their football after a week of berating officials for costing them points. The fact remains that Nuno’s side are one place above the relegation zone and only a point clear of Luton - but maybe more worrisome, two points clear of Burnley who are the more in-form side.
Follow the live action below and see the Nottingham Forest vs Man City prediction and odds here.
Forest 0-1 Man City - LIVE
53 mins: Montiel plays another long ball forward, again to Elanga, but Kovacic manages to clear.
Forest 0-1 Man City - LIVE
51 mins: City clear towards Alvarez, but Forest deal with it easily. The long ball is played towards Elanga, who’s won the footrace and is one-on-one, but his lobbed effort flies wide. He was offside anyway.
Forest 0-1 Man City - LIVE
50 mins: Rodri clips it wide to Bernardo Silva, but Murillo clears the cross.
Forest counter, and Montiel lays it off to Gibbs-White on the outside of the box, but his side-footed effort flies just wide.
Forest 0-1 Man City - LIVE
49 mins: Forest lose the ball trying to play out from the back, and City have sustained possession for the first time in the half.
Forest 0-1 Man City - LIVE
46 mins: CLOSE! Wood again!
Elanga picks the ball up on the left and skips past Walker before squaring it to Wood. It’s such an easy chance, around seven yards out, but Wood just scuffs it and fails to make a proper connection!
Forest 0-1 Man City - LIVE
Two changes for City at half-time as Ederson and Doku are replaced by Ortega and Mateo Kovacic.
The away side get us underway again.
HT - Forest 0-1 Man City - LIVE
De Bruyne in the action once more for City - but Forest have had more than their share of chances.
HT - Forest 0-1 Man City - LIVE
De Bruyne has the final shot of the half with an effort on the turn but it’s blocked, cleared and the half-time whistle goes.
City ahead but not necessarily in control, with Forest certainly giving plenty and looking a threat off set-pieces. If Chris Wood had his shooting boots on it could have been a different story already.
45+2’ - Forest 0-1 Man City - LIVE
So close to an equaliser. A corner hits the near post area, Ederson again flaps at it and gets next to nothing on the ball, it drops to Murillo and the defender flicks it goalward, up onto the crossbar and over.
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