Nottingham Forest vs. Man City final sco

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Nottingham Forest vs. Man City final sco

CITY GROUND, NOTTINGHAM Chris Wood's equaliser six minutes from time for Nottingham Forest punctured Manchester City's title bid and left Arsenal top after a dizzying day at the Premier League summit.A blistering Bernardo Silva strike gave Pep Guardiola's side a 1-0 halftime lead as they looked to build on a superb 3-1 win at Emirates Stadium in midweek.But Erling Haaland and Phil Foden were among the culprits as City wasted a host of second-half chances, leaving substitute Wood to convert Morgan Gibbs-White's cro s for a first Forest goal since his January move from Newcastle.Arsenal have a two-point advantage at the top with a game in hand on City, a situation that looked utterly implausible when they entered injury time at 2-2 in the early Saturday kickoff at Aston Villa before running out 4-2 winners. 1H 2H Final NOT011MCI101Goals:MCI Bernardo Silva (Jack Grealish) 41st minuteNOT Chris Wood (Morgan Gibbs-White) 84th minuteFoden was restored to Pep Guardiolas starting lineup and to the fore during the opening stages. He darted into a pocket of space on the left hand side of the Forest area in the eighth minute to set up Grealish for a chance to add to his Emirates Stadium strike, only for Worrall to have other ideas.Rodri headed wastefuly wide from a Kevin De Bruyne cro s AJ McCarron Jersey after the half hour before Silva, starting again in the unfamiliar position of left-back, took centre-stage. First the Portugal international ripped a long-range shot just past the top-right corner before, from a similar range, leaving Navas grasping at air.Forest were indebted to the former Real Madrid and PSG goalkeeper after the interval, with a point-blank save from an Aymeric Laporte header and a full-length dive to keep an Ilkay Gundogan free-kick out of the top corner standing out among a fine body of work.Navas should have been left with no chance when Foden streamed through on goal and lost his footing, seemingly in two minds over whether to pa s to Haaland.It was scarcely believable when, after Navas spilt a blistering Foden shot in the 68th minute, Haaland hit the cro sbar from the rebound and then blasted his second attempt at an empty net into orbit.All those let-offs saw belief grow inside a raucous City Ground and Wood was the Forest and Arsenal hero when the livewire Brennan Johnson darted into the box to feed Gibbs-White, whose delivery under pre sure was exemplary, leaving the former Burnley striker with a finish even simpler than some of those City pa sed up.MORE: One. Woods tap-in. Thats it.It was a tale of total statistical domination from Guardiolas side, Ryan Hewitt Jersey apart from in the statistical category that matters most. City had 23 shots overall to Forests four and hogged 73.3% of po se sion.This was not sterile domination, either. In some of the games where City have dropped points this season, they have been utterly listle s. But they played at a pleasing tempo in po se sion throughout here.This felt more like the sort of game where they have erred in previous seasons and the type of situation Haaland was supposed to offer insurance against. Hes human, you know.A first time strike from Bernardo Silva. Nick Vigil Jersey : | NBC Sports Soccer (@NBCSportsSoccer) Its entirely plausible that City finish this season with Haaland breaking the Premier League scoring record, De Bruyne breaking the Premier League a sist record and them finishing the campaign empty handed.De Bruynes pa s to tee up Haaland in north London in midweek was his 12th a sist of 2022/23. He also opened the scoring and produced a typical big-game display. But it remains hard to say he is having one of his better seasons.The Belgium star fired off the most shots of any City player on Saturday with seven. Only one extended Navas and some were horribly wayward. He still created four opportunities for teammates, a figure only bettered by Jack Grealish (five), but he will not look back on this match with any fondne s. Injuries to first-choice central defenders Scott McKenna and Willy Boly understandably left Forest fearing the worst against a side who beat them 6-0 in August. Haaland scored a hat-trick that day. But club captain Joe Worral and Felipe were superb, each making a game-high 10 clearances over the course of the contest.Worrall pushed the limit with his lunging tackle on Grealish to earn a booking and it would not have been unfair to see City run out 3-0 or 4-0 winners. Neverthele s, it was hard to begrudge Forests unrelenting defensive commitment being rewarded as they made it eight Premier League home games unbeaten. Fulltime: Manchester City let two points slip away as Chris Wood punishes a host of Pat Sims Jersey mi sed chances. Arsenal are back on top of the Premier League after some incredibly premature post-mortems on their hopes over the past few days. City's players trudge off dejectedly. It certainly did not feel like today would pan out like this when we entered injury time at Villa Park a little before 2:30 p.m! Thanks for joining us.90th minute+4: Cleared. Deafening whistles around the City Ground.90th minute+3: Ake cro ses, Ruben Dias attacks it. Defelcted behind. Surely City's last chance...90th minute+1: We're into four minutes of added time. Aymeric Laporte attacks an Ake cro s - City throwing everyone forward - but gives away a free-kick. Keylor Navas taking plenty of time.89th minute:City have been pretty disorganised since conceding and Guardiola sends on Nathan Ake for Phil Foden. That frees up Bernardo Silva to attack but also adds needed defensive expertise.84th minute:GOOOOAAAAAALLLLLLL!!!!!! Chris Wood!!!!!!City do live to regret their wastefulne s. It's a brilliant run from Brennan Johnson, who breezes past challenges into the City box. He finds Morgan Gibbs-White, whose low cro s finds Wood to finish. Oh, hang on, VAR...Still a goal! Onside!Nottingham Forest fire home the late equalizer against Man City!Odds for the match to end in a draw was +460.(via ) NBC Sports EDGE Betting (@NBCSportsBet) 83rd minute: Haaland stretches his legs to come in-field. He pa ses to Jack Grealish, who Josh Shaw Jersey tees up Kevin De Bruyne. It's another frankly rank shot from City's star midfielder. Way over. Rubbish.81st minute: Bernardo Silva all the way back to his left-back detail. He's tenacious and wins a throw-in by the corner flag off Brennan Johnson. Stuart Pearce would have been proud of that one. Pep Guardiola did not like a challenge on Erling Haaland going unpunished before that and gives the linesman and then the fourth official an earful. He's on a booking, remember.79th minute
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