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
Squad number12Player nameNavas
Squad number24Player nameAurier
Squad number4Player nameWorrall
Squad number38Player nameFelipe
Squad number32Player nameRenan Lodi
Squad number23Player nameFreuler
Squad number6Player nameShelvey
Squad number8Player nameColback
Squad number10Player nameGibbs-White
Squad number28Player nameDanilo
Squad number20Player nameJohnson
Squad number5Player nameMangala
Squad number7Player nameN Williams
Squad number15Player nameToffolo
Squad number34Player nameA Ayew
Squad number39Player nameWood
Manchester City
Squad number31Player nameEderson
Squad number14Player nameLaporte
Squad number3Player nameRúben Dias
Squad number2Player nameWalker
Squad number20Player nameBernardo Silva
Squad number16Player nameRodri
Squad number8Player nameGündogan
Squad number17Player nameDe Bruyne
Squad number47Player nameFoden
Squad number9Player nameHaaland
Squad number10Player nameGrealish
Squad number6Player nameAké
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
Match ends, Nottingham Forest 1, Manchester City 1.
Second Half ends, Nottingham Forest 1, Manchester City 1.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Harry Toffolo.
Attempt blocked. Rúben Dias (Manchester City) header from the centre of the container is blocked. Assisted by Nathan Aké with a cross.
Foul by Aymeric Laporte (Manchester City).
Felipe (Nottingham Forest) wins a escaped footwear successful the antiaircraft half.
Substitution, Manchester City. Nathan Aké replaces Phil Foden.
Substitution, Manchester City. Julián Álvarez replaces Kevin De Bruyne.
Foul by Erling Haaland (Manchester City).
Felipe (Nottingham Forest) wins a escaped footwear successful the attacking half.
Foul by Bernardo Silva (Manchester City).
Brennan Johnson (Nottingham Forest) wins a escaped footwear successful the antiaircraft half.
Attempt blocked. Jack Grealish (Manchester City) close footed changeable from extracurricular the container is blocked.
VAR Decision: Goal Nottingham Forest - Nottingham Forest 1-1 Manchester City (Chris Wood).
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.
Attempt missed. Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) close footed changeable from extracurricular the container is excessively high. Assisted by Jack Grealish.
Jack Grealish (Manchester City) wins a escaped footwear successful the antiaircraft half.
Foul by Neco Williams (Nottingham Forest).
Delay over. They are acceptable to continue.
Substitution, Nottingham Forest. Chris Wood replaces Serge Aurier due to the fact that of an injury.
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