Nottingham Forest vs Manchester City

Nottingham Forest have won 11 Premier League games this season without conceding a goal, more victories than they managed across their previous two seasons in the competition combined (7 in 2022-23 and 3 in 2023-24).

Manchester City have lost nine Premier League games this season, their joint-most in a single campaign under Pep Guardiola (also 9 in 2019-20).

Manchester City have failed to score in four Premier League matches in 2024-25, only in 2016-17 (5) have they done so more often under Pep Guardiola.

Nottingham Forest are winless in their last nine league games against Man City (D2 L7) since a 3-2 win at Maine Road in the second tier in December 1997.

Man City have won their last three Premier League games against Nottingham Forest by an aggregate score of 7-0. They’ve never won four in a row against Forest in the top-flight before.

Since the start of November, this is Manchester City’s eighth Premier League game starting the day in the top four of the table. They’ve taken just one point from the previous seven in this run, conceding at least twice in each match (19 in total).

Nottingham Forest are winless in their last three Premier League games since beating Brighton 7-0 last month (D1 L2). They last went four without a win in April 2024 (D1 L3), the fourth game of which was a 2-0 home loss to Manchester City.

Only Liverpool (22) and Arsenal (18) have won more points in the Premier League in 2025 than Manchester City (16 – W5 D1 L2), with no team netting more often in the top-flight than the Citizens this calendar year (21 – same as Liverpool).