Pep Guardiola and Manchester Metropolis will probably be determined to carry an finish to their seven-game winless streak this week as Nottingham Forest are their newest challengers.
The reigning Premier League champions discover themselves in a rut having not received any contest throughout competitions in over a month, and having misplaced all of their final 4 matches within the top-flight leaving them fifth heading into this week’s encounter.
Manchester Metropolis’s gamers are being deemed as off the boil and plenty of are questioning whether or not the squad has reached the tip of its aggressive peak with a rebuild throughout positions required over the course of the following few switch markets.
Final day out got here a go to to Anfield and an opponent that has brought on Manchester Metropolis difficulties all through Pep Guardiola’s tenure. Nonetheless, this was a method visitors from Liverpool as they comparatively cruised to a 2-0 win over the champions.
As for Nottingham Forest, they returned to profitable methods after back-to-back defeats within the Premier League by dismissing of Ipswich City on the Metropolis Floor because of a single objective from the ever-present Chris Wooden by way of the penalty spot.
Forward of Manchester Metropolis’s return to Premier League motion following a seventh successive contest with out a win final Sunday afternoon, right here is the whole lot it is advisable know forward of the encounter with Nottingham Forest on the Etihad Stadium!
Match Particulars
Manchester Metropolis (fifth) tackle Nottingham Forest (sixth) within the Premier League on Wednesday night time on the Etihad Stadium, with kick-off scheduled for 19:30 (UK).
Match Officers
The Premier League have confirmed that Michael Oliver would be the lead match referee for Manchester Metropolis’s assembly with Nottingham Forest this week, with Peter Bankes taking over the function of Video Assistant Referee from Stockley Park.
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Staff Information
Manchester Metropolis will, after all, stay with out their Ballon d’Or winner Rodri this week and for a number of extra months, while Oscar Bobb additionally stays sidelined as he recovers from a fractured leg.
Mateo Kovacic will not be anticipated to play any function as he recovers from an damage picked up on worldwide obligation with Croatia, while John Stones is anticipated to stay sidelined after Pep Guardiola confirmed the defender has a foot drawback.
As for Kevin De Bruyne, who stays on the bench for Manchester Metropolis of their current matches, supervisor Guardiola has insisted that the Belgian is slowly recovering to a greater degree and has once more improved over the previous few days.
As for Manchester Metropolis’s opponents in Nottingham Forest, the visiting facet are anticipated to stay with out Ibrahim Sangare and Danilo dos Santos de Oliveira for his or her journey to the Etihad Stadium.
Head To Head
Manchester Metropolis and Nottingham Forest have confronted each other a complete of 104 occasions throughout their histories, with Wednesday night time’s hosts on the Etihad popping out on prime 43 occasions throughout that interval, drawing 28 conferences, and being on the dropping facet of a scoreline 33 occasions.
Pep Guardiola and his gamers final confronted off in opposition to Nottingham Forest throughout the enterprise finish of final season, securing a 0-2 win on the street because of targets from Josko Gvardiol and Erling Haaland on the Metropolis Floor.
The identical scoreline would even be seen over the past assembly on the Etihad Stadium between Manchester Metropolis and Nottingham Forest, with targets from Phil Foden and Erling Haaland, however a dramatic purple card offence from Rodri on Morgan Gibbs-White.
Statistics
Manchester Metropolis are unbeaten of their final eight league video games in opposition to Nottingham Forest (W6, D2), since a 3-2 house loss within the second tier in December 1997.
Nottingham Forest have misplaced their final 4 away league video games in opposition to Manchester Metropolis by an combination rating of 12-0, whereas within the top-flight they’re winless of their final seven visits (D3, L4) since a 3-0 win in November 1989.
Nottingham Forest have misplaced their final 5 away video games in opposition to reigning top-flight champions by an combination rating of 21-2. Their final such win was in opposition to Manchester United in December 1994 (2-1).
Manchester Metropolis are unbeaten of their final 31 Premier League house video games performed on a Wednesday (W27 D4), profitable every of the final 20. Their final such defeat was in Might 2010 in opposition to Tottenham.
Nottingham Forest have alternated between defeat (4) and victory (4) of their final eight midweek Premier League video games (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday), beating Fulham 3-1 final day out in April.
How To Watch
These in the UK will be capable to watch Manchester Metropolis in opposition to Nottingham Forest dwell on Amazon Prime Video, with a dwell radio broadcast from BBC Radio Manchester for these within the Higher Manchester area.
Viewers in america can watch the most recent Manchester Metropolis encounter dwell on Peacock.
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