PreMatch Data

Man City vs Forest head-to-head

Manchester City and Nottingham Forest have met 9 times across all competitions between 2022-23 ~ 2025-26: Man City 6 wins, 2 draws, Forest 1 wins. At Man City's ground the home side is 3-1-0 (4 games); at Forest's it is 1-1-3 (5 games). The fixture averages 2.78 goals and both teams score in 33.3% of meetings (8 league, 1 cup).

Compare these two clubs by conditionWin rates side by side by weather, rest days, formation, referee and lineup

Head-to-head6 · 2 · 1Man City W · D · Forest W
Goals per game2.783+ goals 44.4%
Both teams score33.3%9 games
First goal29.3 mingoals from 76' 20.0%
Yellows per game3.89reds 1 · pens 0
Top scorerE. Haaland5 goals

What stands out

  1. 11.1%

    Forest's win rate in this fixture. Across the Premier League over the same span it is 31.2%.9 games, 1W 2D 6L · 20.1pp below their usual rate · small sample

Every condition was compared for both teams; only the items that deviate most from their usual records and the league average are kept. Samples under 5 games are left out entirely, and those under 10 are faded and marked as a small sample. Conditional records count league games only.

How these games play out

Most common scorelines

  1. 2–03×
  2. 2–21×
  3. 2–11×
  4. 0–11×

When the goals come

  1. 1–155
  2. 16–301
  3. 31–455
  4. 46–606
  5. 61–753
  6. 76–90+5

Most starts in this fixture

  1. 9M. Gibbs-White · Forest
  2. 8Bernardo Silva · Man City
  3. 8Rúben Dias · Man City
  4. 7E. Haaland · Man City
  5. 6P. Foden · Man City

Scorelines are shown Man City first · goal timings split the fixture's goals into 15-minute blocks · starts count league meetings since 2017-18

All results

  1. Forest15:00Man City
  2. Man City15:00Forest
  3. Man City2–2Forest
  4. Forest1–2Man City
  5. Forest0–2Man City
  6. Forest1–0Man City
  7. Man City3–0Forest
  8. Forest0–2Man City
  9. Man City2–0Forest
  10. Forest1–1Man City
  11. Man City6–0Forest

top rows are fixtures still to be played (UK kick-off time) · green home win · red away win · league games since 2017-18 only · rows marked Preview open the pre-match data published for that game

Top scorers in this fixture

E. Haaland 5 · J. Álvarez 2 · Bernardo Silva 2 · J. Gvardiol 2 · João Cancelo 1

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