FTMatchday 18

Nottingham Forest vs Manchester City: Prediction

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Nottingham Forest1

Manchester City2

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Match events

3 goals

Nottingham ForestManchester City

36'Ruben Diasyellow card
Elliott Andersonyellow card43'
48'Tijjani Reijndersassist Rayan Cherki
Omari Hutchinsonassist Igor Jesus54'
59'Nico O'Reillyyellow card
73'Tijjani Reijnderson
83'Rayan Cherkiassist Joško Gvardiol
Nicolás Domínguezon87'
89'Rayan Cherkion
Callum Hudson-Odoion90'

Events from TheSportsDB. They can lag the live score by a few minutes.

Match stats

Nottingham ForestManchester City

34%Possession66%
1Expected goals (xG)1
7Shots16
2Shots on target5
5Corners5
5Fouls13
1Yellow cards2
0Red cards0
1Offsides1
3Saves1
293Passes595

Line-ups

Nottingham Forest

31Nikola Milenković
3Neco Williams
16Nicolás Domínguez
7Callum Hudson-Odoi
10Morgan Gibbs-White
8Elliott Anderson
13John
21Omari Hutchinson
5Murillo
19Igor Jesus
37Nicolò Savona

Manchester City

20Bernardo Silva
25Gianluigi Donnarumma
3Ruben Dias
47Phil Foden
9Erling Haaland
4Tijjani Reijnders
10Rayan Cherki
24Joško Gvardiol
27Matheus Nunes
14Nico González
33Nico O'Reilly

Tipster consensus

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Most likely score–

Expected goals (model)–

Team rating (Elo)1492 – 1535

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Nottingham ForestLWLWL

Manchester CityWWWWW

#	Team	P	GD	Pts
1	Manchester City	38	+42	78
2	Nottingham Forest	38	-3	44

Head to head

Manchester City 2–2 Nottingham Forest2026-03-04

Match preview

Nottingham Forest host Manchester City in the Premier League on 27 December 2025. Nottingham Forest sit 16th on 44 points and Manchester City are 2nd on 78. Nottingham Forest have won 2 of their last 5 (LWLWL), while Manchester City have won 5 of 5 (WWWWW). In their last 1 meetings, Nottingham Forest won 0, Manchester City won 0 and 1 ended level. These are probabilities from past results, not guarantees: football upsets happen every week.

How this is worked out

Each club has an Elo rating that moves after every result (bigger wins move it more, home sides get a small boost). We turn the rating gap into expected goals and use a Poisson model to get win, draw and loss chances. The prediction is locked at kick-off and never edited.

Probabilities, not promises. For analysis and entertainment only. 18+.