Manchester City vs Nottingham Forest Preview 31/08/2022

Manchester Metropolis vs Nottingham Forest – 31/08/2022

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Manchester Metropolis will intention to increase their unbeaten begin to the Premier League season after they welcome Nottingham Forest to the Etihad Stadium on Wednesday evening.

With 4 video games within the books, Pep Guardiola’s aspect discover themselves second within the desk – two factors behind first-place Arsenal.

In the meantime, Nottingham Forest sit fourteenth – two factors away from the underside three and 6 factors behind Man Metropolis.

Final day out, Man Metropolis got here from 2-0 right down to beat Crystal Palace 4-2 – with Erling Haaland netting a second-half hat-trick.

Having already picked up wins in opposition to West Ham United (2-0) and Bournemouth (4-0), in addition to a 3-3 draw with Newcastle United, Metropolis have taken ten factors from a attainable 12 this time period.

Alongside Liverpool, the Cityzens are the joint-top scorers within the Premier League – having bagged 13 objectives in 4 video games (3.25 objectives per recreation).

Not solely have the defending champions prevented defeat in every of their final 16 league video games, however they’ve additionally prevented defeat in 31 of their earlier 32.

As for Nottingham Forest, they had been crushed 2-0 by Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday – regardless of racking up 56% possession and 17 pictures.

Meaning Forest have taken 4 factors from a attainable 12 this time period, following a loss to Newcastle (2-0), a win over West Ham (1-0) and a draw with Everton (1-1).

The Tough Timber can take confidence from the truth that they’ve solely misplaced one among their previous six away video games throughout all competitions.

That mentioned, Forest have netted a measly two objectives in 4 league outings this season. Solely West Ham have scored fewer.

Head-to-head: The final assembly between Man Metropolis and Forest got here again in 2009. On that event, Forest claimed a 3-0 victory within the FA Cup.

Nevertheless, quite a bit has modified since then. It goes with out saying that Steve Cooper’s males will should be at their perfect to get something from Wednesday’s conflict.

Staff information: Man Metropolis centre-back Aymeric Laporte will miss the sport attributable to damage. There are additionally query marks over the health of Nathan Ake, Jack Grealish and Kalvin Phillips.

In the meantime, Forest shall be with out the injured duo of Moussa Niakhate and Omar Richards. Orel Mangala can also be a doubt.

Though Forest confirmed shiny attacking intent in opposition to Spurs final day out, the reigning champions shouldn’t battle to beat the newly-promoted aspect.

Forebet predicts that Man Metropolis and Forest will mix for over 4.5 objectives on Wednesday, with the hosts scoring the vast majority of these objectives.