Manchester City have faced Nottingham Forest 109 times since 1899, in that time the Blues have won 46 times and lost on 34 occasions.
Since Forest’s return to the top flight in 2022, City have taken all three points from six of the nine meetings. Forest’s sole win from those nine occasions came in the 2024-25 season, when Callum Hudson-Odoi’s 83rd minute effort was enough to seal the win.
Last time out, it was Elliot Anderson who put a nail in the coffin of City’s title aspirations with a long-range equaliser. On that day, Antoine Semenyo opened the scoring with Rodri cancelling out Morgan Gibbs-White’s initial equaliser, it was then that Anderson struck to rain on City’s parade.
In the fixture before that, goals from Rayan Cherki and Tijjani Reijnders were enough to provide City with a 2-1 comeback triumph.
Statistics
Nottingham Forest are joint last in the scoring charts, with just six goals so far this season. For reference, Erling Haaland currently sits on nine goals in the league.
Forest have failed to score in five of their nine outings in the league this season, also failing to score in the opening round of the Carabao Cup.
A goal for Erling Haaland would see him become joint top scorer in this fixture, with Niall Quinn having scored six against Forest in his time at the club.
The Norwegian striker has failed to score in his last four appearances against Forest, a rare blank streak by his standards.
Oliver Glasner’s side are yet to score a goal at home this season, their longest goal drought at home since 2018, where they failed to score across six consecutive home games.
Manchester City have not lost three consecutive Premier League matches since Manuel Pellegrini was in charge, with the last time being back in March 2016.
Oliver Glasner has failed to win any of his five previous Premier League meetings with City as a manager, losing four and drawing one during his time at Crystal Palace. His sides conceded at least three goals in all four defeats.
