Erling Haaland returns to Metropolis’s beginning line-up as one among two modifications for Manchester Metropolis’s Premier League conflict with Nottingham Forest.
Our quantity 9 missed the victory over Leeds United on the weekend however returns to the beginning line-up rather than Omar Marmoush.
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Nico O’Reilly was compelled off with a knock within the 1-0 victory at Elland Highway and isn’t within the matchday squad.
Phil Foden comes into the beginning line-up as we intention for our seventh straight win all competitions.
Crew Information
CITY XI: Donnarumma, Nunes, Dias, Guéhi, Ait-Nouri, Rodrigo, Bernardo (C), Semenyo, Cherki, Foden, Haaland
Subs: Trafford, Reijnders, Stones, Ake, Marmoush, Doku, Nico, Savinho, Khusanov
NOTTINGHAM FOREST XI: Sels, Aina, Milenkovic, Jair Cunha, Murillo, Williams, Anderson, Sangare, Dominguez, Gibbs-White (C), Jesus
Subs: Gunn, Morato, Hudson-Odoi, Awoniyi, Ndoye, Hutchinson, Yates, McAtee, Netz
Metropolis look more likely to go along with an analogous plan to the one which has seen us win six of our final matches in all competitions.
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That sees Matheus Nunes and Rayan Ait-Nouri as our full-backs both aspect of Ruben Dias and Marc Guéhi within the centre of defence.
Rodri will proceed within the holding midfield position with help from skipper Bernardo Silva providing help.
Rayan Cherki and Foden will pull the attacking midfield strings with Haaland and Antoine Semenyo performing as our furthest ahead attackers.
It’s a wierd proven fact that for a supervisor that enjoys having Portuguese gamers in his aspect, Guardiola has a outstanding file in opposition to coaches from that nation.
Bernardo Silva captains as we speak’s aspect with Nunes and Dias additionally begins for the Blues in opposition to Vitor Pereira’s aspect.
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Pep has received 17 of his final 20 Premier League matches in opposition to Portuguese managers, together with two wins over Wolves when Pereira was boss in Could and August final season.
Extremely, the one different time these two have met was in August 2011 within the UEFA Tremendous Cup when Barcelona beat Porto 2-0 in Monaco.
Stats and details
Metropolis have received 4 of our final 5 Premier League matches in opposition to Forest, successful 2-1 earlier this season on the Metropolis Floor.
Since returning to the Premier League in 2022/23, Nottingham Forest have misplaced all three of their away Premier League video games on the Etihad with out scoring, conceding 11 occasions. They’re winless in eight away top-flight visits since a 3-0 win in November 1989.
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Forest’s run is one among three situations a aspect has failed to attain whereas delivery 10+ objectives at a stadium within the competitors, together with Birmingham Metropolis at Previous Trafford (0 objectives, 17 conceded) and Bradford Metropolis at Previous Trafford (0 objectives, 10 conceded).
Metropolis have received 16 of our final 19 Premier League dwelling video games, no less than three greater than every other aspect since April 2025.
Just below two fifths of Metropolis’s Premier League wins this season have been by one objective, beating Newcastle 2-1 and Leeds 1-0 in our final two. It’s the best proportion of wins by a single objective since 2012/13 (52% – 12/23).
Throughout his spells at Wolves (10 video games) and Forest (2), Vítor Pereira stays winless within the Premier League this season (D2 L10). Solely two managers have taken cost of extra video games in a marketing campaign within the competitors with out successful: Paul Jewell in 2007/08 (24, all with Derby) and Terry Connor in 2011/12 (13, all with Wolves).
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Underneath Pep Guardiola, we’ve got received 24 of our 26 Premier League video games on a Wednesday on the Etihad, averaging 2.85 points-per-game – the most effective of any aspect below a supervisor at dwelling on a particular day of the week within the competitors’s historical past (10+ video games performed).
Solely Chris Wooden (37) has scored extra Premier League objectives for Forest than Morgan Gibbs-White (24, degree with Bryan Roy). Gibbs-White’s seven objectives this season are his joint-most in a Premier League marketing campaign (additionally 7 in 2024-25).
Nico O’Reilly has scored three objectives in Metropolis’s final two Premier League dwelling video games, whereas a objective on this recreation would make him solely the second participant to attain in three successive dwelling appearances within the competitors for the membership whereas aged 20 or youthful after Phil Foden in July 2020.