{"id":39267,"date":"2025-12-27T11:23:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T11:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=39267"},"modified":"2025-12-27T11:23:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T11:23:18","slug":"nottingham-forest-v-manchester-city-premier-league-live-premier-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=39267","title":{"rendered":"Nottingham Forest v Manchester City: Premier League \u2013 live | Premier League"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nottingham Forest v Man City line-ups<\/h2>\n

Nottingham Forest:<\/strong> John Victor, Williams, Murillo, Milkenkovic, Savona, Anderson, Dominguez, Gibbs-White, Hudson-Odoi, Hutchinson, Igor Jesus<\/p>\n

Subs: <\/strong>Sels, Morato, Awoniyi, Luiz, Kalimuendo, McAtee, Bakwa, Zinchenko<\/p>\n

Manchester City:<\/strong> Donnarumma, Nunes, Dias, Gvardiol, O\u2019Reilly, Nico, Bernardo, Reijnders, Foden, Cherki, Haaland<\/p>\n

Subs: <\/strong>Trafford, Ake, Rodri, Savinho, Khusanov, McAidoo, Mukasa, Lewis, R. Heskey<\/p>\n

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John Robertson remembered<\/h2>\n

Nottingham Forest: <\/strong>A player who was adored by Forest fans and made Nottingham his permanent home, expect reverential tribute to be paid to the late John Robertson at the City Ground ahead of kick-off this afternoon. Genuine tears of sorrow will be shed as Forest supporters bid farewell to one of their greatest ever players, whose death at the age of 72 was reported on Christmas Day.<\/p>\n

A key member of the Forest team Brian Clough marched from the second tier to the very summit of European football, this incredibly talented Scottish winger may not have looked much like an elite athlete but played an instrumental role in helping Forest win two European Cups and represented his country 28 times.<\/p>\n

Paying tribute to Robertson\u2019s stellar service with the club, Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis said he has recommended that the City Ground\u2019s Bridgford Stand be renamed The John Robertson Stand in Robbo\u2019s honour and \u201cin lasting recognition of his extraordinary contribution to our club, so that his legacy \u2013 and our great hero \u2013 will forever be remembered\u201d.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Nottingham Forest\u2019s John Robertson leaves Birmingham City Birmingham City\u2019s Kevin Dillon (right) trailing in his wake. <\/span> Photograph: PA Photos\/PA<\/span>RIP Robbo Legend<\/span> Photograph: Joe Giddens\/PAShare<\/p>\n

Early team news<\/h2>\n

Chris Wood remains sidelined for Forest but is back gambolling on the grass as he recovers from the knee injury that has kept him out since mid-October. Ola Aina is also out, while Dan Doye and Ryan Yates were facing late fitness tests. Ibrahim Sangare and Willy Boly are both away in Morocco representing the Ivory Coast at Afcon.<\/p>\n

Manchester City are without Rayan Ait Nouri (Algeria) and Omar Marmoush (Egypt), who are both at Afcon, while Jeremy Doku is expected to miss out today with an ankle injury. John Stones, Oscar Bobb, Rodri and Mateo Kovacic are also unavailable.<\/p>\n

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Premier League: Nottingham Forest v Man City<\/h2>\n

Hello there. It\u2019s the festive period, which means two things: you\u2019re not sure what day it is and there\u2019s lots of football being played. Manchester City arrive in Nottingham like a relentless blue superthing that has finally hit fifth gear. Having spent yesterday weighing his players like precious metals in a bid to gleefully seize upon any evidence of Christmas Day over-indulgence, Pep Guardiola is chasing an eighth straight win. With Erling Haaland back to his terrifying best and Rayan Cherki pulling strings like a puppet master, City know victory will nudge them above Arsenal to the Premier League summit, at least for a few hours.<\/p>\n

Standing in their way are Nottingham Forest, who are hovering uncomfortably above the trapdoor in 17th place but have won six of their past nine in all competitions and emerged victorious from this fixture last season. In Sean Dyche they have a head coach who views 30% possession and a bruising set-piece goal as the highest form of art. Will it be a post-Christmas stroll for the visitors, or will Dychey take great glee in ruining Pep\u2019s festive fun? Kick-off is at 12.30pm (GMT) and we\u2019ll have team news and build-up in the meantime.<\/p>\n

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Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Nottingham Forest v Man City line-ups Nottingham Forest: John Victor, Williams, Murillo, Milkenkovic, Savona, Anderson, Dominguez, Gibbs-White, Hudson-Odoi, Hutchinson, Igor Jesus Subs: Sels, Morato, Awoniyi, Luiz, Kalimuendo, McAtee, Bakwa, Zinchenko Manchester City: Donnarumma, Nunes, Dias, Gvardiol, O\u2019Reilly, Nico, Bernardo, Reijnders, Foden,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[1485,1721,3504,132,1570,5065,1706],"class_list":{"0":"post-39267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-city","9":"tag-forest","10":"tag-league","11":"tag-live","12":"tag-manchester","13":"tag-nottingham","14":"tag-premier"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}