Shamoon Hafez
Football reporter at the City Ground

One clean sheet in the past 10 games for Manchester City now, on a day when champions Arsenal managed another shut out.

Can't keep conceding goals and expecting to challenge for the title.

Marc Guehi lets Morgan Gibbs-White get away from him and, although he recovers, the ball stays with Forest and comes to James McAtee on the right but his shot is straight at Gianluigi Donnarumma.

Forest just carving through this City defence at the moment.

Arsenal

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta to Sky Sports on how his side found their win: "Consistency and keep going. We talked about this that it will happen at some point to break them down. We had some big moments that in my opinion we should have scored some goals but we don't hit the target, we don't get the final pass. So many situations where if you don't do that you have to rely on generating so much volume and at some point relying that you will get them down and that's the way we won the game.

"It's something that is happening a lot, and a few games as well we have been 1-0 down very early and we still manage to do that. Getting results is very, very important and I think we need to praise our players for the way they go about every single game. We have done really well from the international break up to this point."

On Noni Madueke: "He's a great example for the rest of the group because before the first international break he wasn't playing. And what he did is instead of going on holidays he went to Portugal and got somebody to train with him and got in better shape and condition and immediately he got back into the rhythm. You can see now he is full of confidence and trying things and getting past players and he's impacting games with goals and assists and we are very happy with that."

On the decision not to award Arsenal a penalty: "I don't know, I was confused because when the referee went to the monitor I thought it was because it was a clear penalty. But they made a different decision based off the offside so I don't know, we don't have any clarity yet about the decision."

Good point, Syd.

As things stand Manchester United are in the relegation zone. They take on Aston Villa at Old Trafford tomorrow (16:30).

Steve Stone
Former England midfielder on BBC Radio 5 live

We talked about Forest not letting Man City just have the ball.

Jair Cunha has just stepped in there and put some pressure on Josko Gvardiol and he's gone through and showed great composure

A terrific finish, the players and fans are up for it, Oliver Glasner's comments last week have made them up for it.

Jeremy Doku looks for the immediate response but his shot is blocked behind for a corner.

Enzo Fernandez whips it in but it doesn't beat the first man.

The errors for Manchester City at the back are starting to build up.

That was another poor one that gifts Forest the opener.

Shamoon Hafez
Football reporter at the City Ground

Another individual error from a Manchester City player gifts Forests the opener.

Jair Cunha with a lovely finish and the pressure is piling up on Enzo Maresca.

"Who are ya!" is the chant from the home supporters, a dream start for them.

Sami Mokbel
BBC Sport Senior football correspondent

Tottenham are set to submit a formal complaint amid anger at referee John Brooks’ decision not to show Leeds defender Jayden Bogle a red card following his studs-up challenge on Mathys Tel.

Bogle escaped a sending off in the first-half despite replays showing he’d caught Tel on the back of the ankle with a late challenge.

Brooks did not book the Leeds defender and the incident was reviewed lengthily by VAR but the original decision stood with the referee not sent to the touchline screen to re-evaluate the challenge

Spurs attacker Tel was subsequently substituted off before half-time.

Manchester City dominating possession in these early stages as you might expect.

Elliot Anderson doesn't seem to be getting much heat from the Forest supporters. They know what a good player he was for them.

Shamoon Hafez
Football reporter at the City Ground

Forest fans go early with the accusations of "cheating" towards the opposition.

City supporters respond by holding their inflatable bananas in the away end.

Some have come dressed as the yellow fruit too.

Erling Haaland scored five goals in his first four Premier League games against Nottingham Forest but he has since gone four without a goal against the Tricky Trees.

Away we go at the City Ground.

The teams are out. The wreaths have been laid. The Last Post is being played.

Shamoon Hafez
Football reporter at the City Ground

Nottingham Forest fans, after seeing their club docked four points a couple years ago for breaching Financial Fair Play rules, jeer the Premier League anthem before kick-off.

Manchester City supporters, for reasons well documented, join in too.

Manchester City have the highest expected goals total (18.3), and the highest average xG per shot (0.13) of any side in the Premier League this season.

Nottingham Forest have an xG of 14.34. The difference? They have struggled to put their chances away, scoring six goals this campaign to City's 20.

Manchester City got back to winning ways in Europe in midweek after a three-game spell that included two league defeats - to Aston Villa and Brighton - and needing penalties to get past Brighton in the Carabao Cup.

But even to do that they twice lost the lead and it all seemed like a bit of an uphill battle.

After such a strong start to the season, has the bubble burst on Enzo Maresca's honeymoon period? Or can they recover?

A big opportunity to return to winning ways in the league today against a struggling Forest side.

Enzo Maresca continues to insist that Gianluigi Donnarumma is his number one, despite the goalkeeper making a number of mistakes in recent weeks.

He was at fault for RB Leipzig's first goal, getting beaten at his near post, while there were a couple of other nervy moments that almost led to goals.

It feels like Donnarumma is making a mistake in almost every game at the moment. City's last clean sheet in any competition was on 11 October against Liverpool (3-0) in the Premier League.

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