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Currently outside of the Champions League picture let alone the

Premier League title race, confidence-depleted champions Manchester City

have a seven-game winless run to end when Nottingham Forest arrive at the Etihad on Wednesday night.

Pep Guardiola’s troops could not stop the Liverpool juggernaut on Sunday,

losing 2-0 to the runaway leaders, while the Tricky Trees edged out Ipswich Town 1-0 to get back to winning ways.

A defiant Guardiola found the energy to raise six fingers to the

Liverpool crowd as the customary “sacked in the morning” chants bellowed out from the

Anfield stands, as the City boss sought to remind the merry Merseyside contingent of just how many times he has conquered the land.

However, six is also how many defeats Man City have suffered in their last

seven games following Sunday’s unsuccessful stopover at Anfield, where strikes

either side of the half-time interval from Cody Gakpo and Mohamed Salah propelled Arne Slot’s machine to a richly-deserved victory.

In truth, the stumbling champions were fortunate to still be in the game at half time

Liverpool were being their own worst enemies in the final third for the majority of the match

but the end outcome was still the same, City falling 11 points behind the Reds in the Premier League table.

The Citizens – who have also been bumped outside the top four thanks to their alarming rut

would need to statistically pull off the greatest comeback the

Premier League has ever seen if they are to complete a fabulous five-peat,

as every team with at least a six-point lead after 13 games has gone on to win the title.

Reeling from losing four straight Premier League games for the first time since 2008,

one of which saw Tottenham Hotspur humiliate the Citizens on their own patch,

Guardiola’s crisis club are at risk of going down in back-to-back top-flight home games for the first time since May 2021.

While City are at risk of suffering a fifth straight Premier League defeat in the midweek battle,

Forest stopped the rot at two successive losses, atoning for beating at the hands of

Arsenal and Newcastle United when Ipswich Town came to visit.

It was a far from vintage performance from Nuno Espirito Santo’s troops, but an early

second-half penalty from Chris Wood was all that was required to see off the Tractor Boys,

as the New Zealand hotshot drew level with Bryan Roy on a record 24 Premier League goals for Forest.

One Etihad strike away from an unrivalled 25, Wood heads to Manchester only

trailing an off-colour Erling Haaland by three goals in the Golden Boot race,

netting nine of Forest’s 16 efforts during their unexpected early charge for the European places.

Sitting pretty in sixth place in the table – just one point worse off than Wednesday’s hosts

Forest arrive at the Etihad with the joint third-best away record in the division this season,

with their 11 points on rival turf only inferior to Liverpool’s 16 and Chelsea’s 13 after six road outings.

However, not since the 2008-09 FA Cup have Forest managed to get one over Man City,

who have three wins and a draw to their name against the

Tricky Trees since their top-flight promotion in 2022, easing to back-to-back 2-0 wins in the 2023-24 campaign.