Nottingham Forest vs Manchester City 3-1

Nottingham Forest beat Manchester City 3-1 at the City Ground after racing into a two-goal lead and restoring it when Liam Delap scored again in the second half. City had more of the ball and more passes, but Forest made their chances count.

Jair Cunha opened the scoring in the 6th minute to make it 1-0 before Delap doubled the lead in the 18th minute from Xaver Schlager's assist. That left Nottingham Forest 2-0 up at half-time.

Manchester City made two changes at half-time, with Josko Gvardiol and Marc Guehi taken off for Nico O'Reilly and Matheus Nunes, and they pulled one back through Rayan Cherki in the 52nd minute to make it 2-1. Forest responded with two changes in the 65th minute, with James Mcatee, who had been booked a minute earlier, going off for Dan Ndoye and Daniel Muñoz replaced by Luca Netz. Delap then scored his second of the match in the 73rd minute, assisted by Morgan Gibbs-White, to make it 3-1, and Forest saw out the game with further changes in the 79th and 87th minutes.

The numbers showed City with 78% possession and 753 passes to Forest's 206, while they also had 12 shots to 11. Forest had five shots on target to City's four, three corners to seven, and the higher expected goals figure was City's 1.55 to Forest's 1.02. Forest also committed 13 fouls to City's 7 and were caught offside twice, while City were not offside once.

Forest's only bookings came for James Mcatee in the 64th minute, Dan Ndoye in the 69th, Luca Netz in the 90+4th minute and Igor Jesus in the 90+5th. Manchester City finished without a yellow card or a sending-off.