Manchester Metropolis make the journey to Nottingham on Saturday lunchtime for an enormous conflict within the race for a top-four end within the Premier League.
Pep Guardiola and his gamers are beginning to see an upturn of their type and performances of late, largely impressed by the brand new arrivals and recent legs introduced in in the course of the latest January switch window.
An away conflict towards Nuno Espirito Santo’s high-flying Forest is the penultimate fixture earlier than the March worldwide break, with a house assembly with Brighton & Hove Albion due subsequent weekend as midweek rests turn out to be a frequent characteristic of Metropolis’s finish of the season.
However Manchester Metropolis will should be at their best possible to see off one of many strongest packages of the marketing campaign, with Nottingham Forest determined to not throw away all of their effective work on the tail-end of the season in quest of European soccer.
Pep Guardiola has an entire host of harm points to cope with significantly in defence, as all of John Stones, Manuel Akanji, and Nathan Ake are dominated out for this one as a result of longer-term accidents, whereas Rodri stays not prepared however is again in particular person coaching.
Forward of kick-off on the Metropolis Floor, right here is how each Nuno Espirito Santo and Pep Guardiola have lined up their respective Nottingham Forest and Manchester Metropolis sides in Premier League motion!
Nottingham Forest
Beginning XI: TBC
Substitutes: TBC
Manchester Metropolis
Beginning XI: Ederson; Nunes, Khusanov, Dias (C), Gvardiol; Nico, Bernardo, Foden; Savinho, Haaland, Doku.
Substitutes: Ortega Moreno, Lewis, Reis, O’Reilly, Gundogan, Kovacic, De Bruyne, Grealish, Marmoush.