Nottingham Forest — Manchester City 3:1, 7 November: match result

match finished Premier League · Matchday 10 Saturday 7 November · 17:30 UTC

Nottingham Forest 16th · 9 pts WLDLL

3 : 1 1st half 2:0

Manchester City 2th · 21 pts LLLWW

City Ground · referee S. Barrott

Match predictionBold

Manchester City to avoid defeat

79% · Manchester City sit 14 places higher in the table

Prediction missed. We predicted “Manchester City to avoid defeat”, and the match finished 3:1.

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our forecast this is how the model saw the match before kick-off

Nottingham Forest 25% draw 26% Manchester City 49%

The model was wrong

The most likely outcome was Manchester City win, and the match finished 3:1. Fans backed Manchester City win — they got it wrong.

fans 52 votes

Nottingham Forest 23% draw 15% Manchester City 62%

Voting closed at kick-off

Match events

full timeline

Cunha 1-0 6'

L. Delap assist: X. Schlager 2-0 18'

N. O'Reilly for J. Gvardiol 46'

M. Nunes for M. Guehi 46'

R. Cherki 2-1 52'

J. McAtee 64'

L. Netz for D. Munoz 65'

D. Ndoye for J. McAtee 65'

D. Ndoye 69'

L. Delap assist: M. Gibbs-White 3-1 73'

P. Foden for E. Fernandez 78'

I. Sangare for R. Yates 79'

Igor Jesus for L. Delap 87'

L. Netz 90+4'

Igor Jesus 90+5'

Line-ups

starting eleven and bench

Nottingham Forest 3-4-2-1 4-2-3-1 Manchester City

Matz Sels  
Jair  31 Nikola Milenković  5 Murillo  
Daniel Muñoz  21 Xaver Schlager  22 Ryan Yates  3 Neco Williams  
James McAtee  10 Morgan Gibbs-White  
Liam Delap  

Erling Haaland  
Iliman Ndiaye  10 Rayan Cherki  11 Jérémy Doku  
Enzo Fernández  5 Elliot Anderson  
Abdukodir Khusanov  3 Rúben Dias  6 Marc Guéhi  24 Joško Gvardiol  
Gianluigi Donnarumma  

Nottingham Forest bench

15Arnaud Kalimuendo
7Callum Hudson Odoi
9Chris Wood
14Dan Ndoye
6Ibrahim Sangaré
11Igor Jesus
12John Victor
25Luca Netz
2Ousmane Diomande

Manchester City bench

37Allan
32Ayyoub Bouaddi
28Gerónimo Rulli
8Mateo Kovačić
27Matheus Nunes
33Nico O'Reilly
47Phil Foden
82Rico Lewis
22Vitor Reis

Match stats

20 metrics for the full match

22%Possession78%

11Shots12

5Shots on target4

3Shots off target4

3Blocked shots4

7Shots inside box10

4Shots outside box2

64Attacks161

25Dangerous attacks66

3Corners7

2Offsides0

13Fouls7

4Yellow cards0

2Saves2

206Passes753

138Accurate passes666

7Free kicks15

11Throw-ins22

10Goal kicks7

0Penalties0

Nottingham Forest

Manchester CityThe source gives no per-half split — only totals for the match

How the match went

text generated from our data

Nottingham Forest and Manchester City met on matchday 10 of the Premier League on 7 November at City Ground. Final score — 3:1.

Nottingham Forest sit 16th on 9 points after 10 matches (2 wins, 3 draws, 5 losses). Manchester City sit 2th on 21 points after 10 matches (7 wins, 0 draws, 3 losses), winless in 3 matches, 3 matches without conceding.

Of the last 2 meetings Nottingham Forest won 0, Manchester City won 1, with 1 more meeting drawn. Aggregate score — 3:4.

Season form

all competitions of the season

Nottingham Forest last five Manchester City

WLDLL form LLLWW

10 Matches 10

2 — 3 — 5 Wins — draws — defeats 7 — 0 — 3

9 — 13 Scored — conceded 21 — 13

0.9 Points per game 2.1

0.9 Goals scored per game 2.1

1 Clean sheets 3

5 Failed to score 1

unbeaten in 1 Current streak winless in 3

Nottingham Forest at home: 5 matches, 1 win, 1 draw, 3 losses, goals 3—4, 0.8 points per match.

Manchester City away: 5 matches, 3 wins, 0 draws, 2 losses, goals 10—6, 1.8 points per match.

Head-to-head

2 matches in our database

0 Nottingham Forest wins 1 draw 1 Manchester City win goals 3:4 Nottingham Forest — Manchester City

04/03/2026	Manchester City — Nottingham Forest	2:2	Premier League
27/12/2025	Nottingham Forest — Manchester City	1:2	Premier League

League table

after the match

#	Team	P	W	D	L	Goals	Pts
1	Arsenal FC	10	9	0	1	15—5	27
2	Manchester City	10	7	0	3	21—13	21
3	Brighton & Hove Albion	9	6	1	2	24—7	19
…
15	Fulham	10	2	4	4	10—12	10
16	Nottingham Forest	10	2	3	5	9—13	9
17	Coventry City	10	3	0	7	10—19	9

Full Premier League table

Nottingham Forest — Manchester City, 7 November 2026, 17:30 UTC : score 3:1