Nottingham Forest 1-1 Manchester City: Chris Wood denies City win

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Bernardo Silva scores for Manchester CitySilva's extremity was his 3rd of the play but archetypal since August

Manchester City missed the accidental to instrumentality to the apical of the Premier League arsenic Chris Wood's precocious extremity earned Nottingham Forest a constituent astatine the City Ground.

Bernardo Silva's rocket from 20 yards opened the scoring and the visitors missed chances successful abundance to enactment the crippled to bed.

Erling Haaland volleyed against the crossbar and ballooned the rebound implicit the apical aft Aymeric Laporte's header was brilliantly saved by Forest keeper Keylor Navas.

Morgan Gibbs-White's fizzed transverse was tapped successful astatine the acold station successful the 84th infinitesimal for Wood's archetypal Forest goal.

The gully extended Forest's unbeaten location tally to 8 games and dealt a stroke to City's rubric hopes aft Arsenal returned to the apical with a 4-2 comeback win against Aston Villa earlier connected Saturday.

City rue missed opportunities

After being constricted to 37% possession against Arsenal successful midweek, the lowest percent of immoderate Guardiola squad successful the apical flight, City returned to immoderate semblance of normality with a ascendant 84% successful the opening play connected Saturday.

Starting his archetypal crippled aft a spell connected the sidelines with a ft injury, Phil Foden was a item for City, driving guardant and making a nuisance of himself to a depleted Forest backline.

Silva, playing again arsenic a makeshift left-back, sent a decent effort from scope whistling implicit the barroom moments earlier receiving the shot connected the borderline of the country and firing a stunning left-footed changeable into the extortion of the net.

The extremity was reward for the visitors' continued unit and they had ample accidental to forestall the nervy finish, Foden's off-balance walk not rather reaching Haaland for a tap-in and Ilkay Gundogan narrowly misjudging Kyle Walker's cross.

But City, for each their dominance, were made to rue their missed chances and were reduced to last-ditch attempts arsenic they scrambled for a precocious winner.

Kevin de Bruyne had 7 attempts astatine extremity but recovered his radar to beryllium disconnected people arsenic City failed to capitalise connected immoderate momentum gathered from their victory implicit rubric rivals Arsenal connected Wednesday.

They person present dropped 15 distant points this season, compared to 11 successful full past term.

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Nottingham Forest

  1. Squad number12Player nameNavas

  2. Squad number24Player nameAurier

  3. Squad number4Player nameWorrall

  4. Squad number38Player nameFelipe

  5. Squad number32Player nameRenan Lodi

  6. Squad number23Player nameFreuler

  7. Squad number6Player nameShelvey

  8. Squad number8Player nameColback

  9. Squad number10Player nameGibbs-White

  10. Squad number28Player nameDanilo

  11. Squad number20Player nameJohnson

  1. Squad number5Player nameMangala

  2. Squad number7Player nameN Williams

  3. Squad number15Player nameToffolo

  4. Squad number34Player nameA Ayew

  5. Squad number39Player nameWood

Manchester City

  1. Squad number31Player nameEderson

  2. Squad number14Player nameLaporte

  3. Squad number3Player nameRúben Dias

  4. Squad number2Player nameWalker

  5. Squad number20Player nameBernardo Silva

  6. Squad number16Player nameRodri

  7. Squad number8Player nameGündogan

  8. Squad number17Player nameDe Bruyne

  9. Squad number47Player nameFoden

  10. Squad number9Player nameHaaland

  11. Squad number10Player nameGrealish

  1. Squad number6Player nameAké

  2. Squad number19Player nameÁlvarez

Line-ups

Nottm Forest

Formation 4-3-2-1

  • 12Navas
  • 24AurierSubstituted forWoodat 79'minutes
  • 4WorrallBooked astatine 14mins
  • 38Felipe
  • 32LodiSubstituted forToffoloat 79'minutes
  • 23Freuler
  • 6ShelveySubstituted forMangalaat 72'minutes
  • 8ColbackSubstituted forN Williamsat 58'minutes
  • 10Gibbs-White
  • 28dos Santos de OliveiraSubstituted forA Ayewat 58'minutes
  • 20Johnson

Substitutes

  • 5Mangala
  • 7N Williams
  • 13Hennessey
  • 15Toffolo
  • 16Surridge
  • 25Dennis
  • 31Furtado Scarpa
  • 34A Ayew
  • 39Wood

Man City

Formation 3-2-4-1

  • 31Ederson
  • 14Laporte
  • 3Rúben Dias
  • 2Walker
  • 20Bernardo Silva
  • 16Rodri
  • 8Gündogan
  • 17De BruyneSubstituted forÁlvarezat 88'minutes
  • 47FodenSubstituted forAkéat 89'minutes
  • 9Haaland
  • 10Grealish

Substitutes

  • 4Phillips
  • 6Aké
  • 18Ortega
  • 19Álvarez
  • 21Gómez
  • 25Akanji
  • 26Mahrez
  • 80Palmer
  • 82Lewis

Referee:Graham Scott

Attendance:29,365

Live Text

  1. Match ends, Nottingham Forest 1, Manchester City 1.

  2. Second Half ends, Nottingham Forest 1, Manchester City 1.

  3. Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Harry Toffolo.

  4. Attempt blocked. Rúben Dias (Manchester City) header from the centre of the container is blocked. Assisted by Nathan Aké with a cross.

  5. Foul by Aymeric Laporte (Manchester City).

  6. Felipe (Nottingham Forest) wins a escaped footwear successful the antiaircraft half.

  7. Substitution, Manchester City. Nathan Aké replaces Phil Foden.

  8. Substitution, Manchester City. Julián Álvarez replaces Kevin De Bruyne.

  9. Foul by Erling Haaland (Manchester City).

  10. Felipe (Nottingham Forest) wins a escaped footwear successful the attacking half.

  11. Foul by Bernardo Silva (Manchester City).

  12. Brennan Johnson (Nottingham Forest) wins a escaped footwear successful the antiaircraft half.

  13. Attempt blocked. Jack Grealish (Manchester City) close footed changeable from extracurricular the container is blocked.

  14. VAR Decision: Goal Nottingham Forest - Nottingham Forest 1-1 Manchester City (Chris Wood).

  15. Goal! Nottingham Forest 1, Manchester City 1. Chris Wood (Nottingham Forest) near footed changeable from precise adjacent scope to the bottommost near corner. Assisted by Morgan Gibbs-White.Goal confirmed pursuing VAR Review.

  16. Attempt missed. Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) close footed changeable from extracurricular the container is excessively high. Assisted by Jack Grealish.

  17. Jack Grealish (Manchester City) wins a escaped footwear successful the antiaircraft half.

  18. Foul by Neco Williams (Nottingham Forest).

  19. Delay over. They are acceptable to continue.

  20. Substitution, Nottingham Forest. Chris Wood replaces Serge Aurier due to the fact that of an injury.

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