Manchester City and Nottingham Forest have confirmed their starting lineups ahead of another critical Premier League fixture for Pep Guardiola’s side. City enter today’s match off the back of seven consecutive wins in all competitions. They’ll be eager to make it eight straight wins at The City Ground today. But they’ll have to overcome an improved Nottingham Forest side. Since Sean Dyche has taken over as manager at Forest their has been significant improvement shown by Nottingham Forest. They’ll be up for the visit of Pep Guardiola’s side today so a tough match awaits City.
Manchester City will be without several players for today’s match. John Stones Jeremy Doku, Mateo Kovacic and Oscar Bobb are all out due to injury. Omar Marmoush and Rayan Ait-Nouri are unavailable due to international duty. Rodri is a chance to return today in what would be a massive boost for City as Pep Guardiola revealed yesterday.
Manchester City
Pep Guardiola has made no changes to the team that beat West Ham 3-nil at the Etihad before Christmas.
Rodri finally returns to the Manchester City matchday squad for today’s match. He takes a spot on the bench and the hope is that he can contribute at some point during today’s match.
Starting lineup: Gianluigi Donnarumma, Matheus Nunes, Ruben Dias, Josko Gvardiol, Nico O’Reilly, Nico, Bernardo Silva (C), Tijjani Reijnders, Phil Foden, Rayan Cherki, Erling Haaland.
Substitutes: Trafford, Ake, Rodri, Savinho, Khusanov, McAidoo, Mukasa, Lewis, R. Heskey.
Nottingham Forest
Taking on Manchester City this afternoon. pic.twitter.com/KrfPU2ZUGy
— Nottingham Forest (@NFFC) December 27, 2025