Nottingham vs Manchester City prediction: ENGLAND: Premier League betting tips on match 2025-03-07 12:30.
[p]After Nottingham Forest narrowly avoided relegation last season and Manchester City won the title, few would have predicted before the season that Forest would come into this matchday 28 clash sat above City. The Tricky Trees have hit a buffer in recent weeks, winning just one of their last five league games (D1, L3) and are now sitting only two points inside the top four with a whole host of sides hunting them down. [/p]
[p]Results dependent, they could even find themselves outside of the top four for the first time in 2025, but they can ensure that won’t be the case if they can beat City in the league for the first time since December 1997 (D2, L7). A clash at the City Ground certainly gives them a chance to end that rotten run, since they’ve won seven of their last ten league games there (D2, L1).[/p]
[p]It’s been a season of disappointment for Manchester City, who haven’t had as few as their current 47-point haul after 27 rounds since they mustered just 46 in 2009/10. Such a lowly return means a top-four finish is as good as it’s going to get for Pep Guardiola’s side this season in the league, although they still have a chance to claim some silverware after progressing in the FA Cup last weekend. [/p]
[p]With the club’s lowest-ever points haul under the Spaniard being the 78 that City won in his maiden Premier League campaign, defeat here would condemn the club to their worst total in Guardiola’s tenure. Six wins from their last nine league games (D1, L2) would suggest they could delay that near certainty and leapfrog Forest here, but it’s worth noting that the two defeats in that run came against the other two sides joining Forest and City in the top four. [/p]
[p]Players to watch: Chris Wood is the only player to score for Nottingham Forest against Manchester City in the Premier League since their return to the top flight – he’s been involved in 11 goals across his last nine Premier League appearances (G8, A3). Erling Haaland returned to action with the winner in City’s last league outing, but four of his last six goals came in games City lost. [/p]
[p]Hot stat: Nottingham Forest are the only side yet to trail a Premier League home game at half-time this season. [/p]
[p][i]Written by Chris Wilson[/i][/p]