{"id":335060,"date":"2025-12-25T14:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T14:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/335060\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T14:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T14:46:07","slug":"nottingham-forest-out-to-end-30-year-streak-stop-manchester-city-making-top-flight-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/335060\/","title":{"rendered":"Nottingham Forest out to end 30-year streak, stop Manchester City making top-flight history"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nottingham Forest<\/a> will be out to end a 30-year streak and prevent Manchester City<\/a> from making top-flight history on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The East Midlands outfit head into the fixture with Pep Guardiola<\/a>‘s side sitting down in 17th place in the Premier League table<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Monday’s 1-0 defeat at Fulham has left Sean Dyche<\/a> with much to ponder ahead of welcoming one of the division’s in-form clubs to the City Ground.<\/p>\n

Man City are the clear favourites to prevail as they bid to improve on their current second place and end 2025 in top spot.<\/p>\n

When they take to the pitch in the East Midlands, Man City will be attempting to prolong a streak that has lasted since 1995.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 Imago \/ Sports Press Photo<\/p>\n

What streak can Nottingham Forest end against Man City?<\/p>\n

Thirty years have passed by without Nottingham Forest recording successive league victories over Man City.<\/p>\n

March’s 1-0 win has put them in that position, albeit with Man City having already gained revenge with victory in the FA Cup semi-final between the clubs less than two months later.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, Man City have been relentless in the Premier League of late, prevailing in their last five fixtures and winning their most recent three outings by a 3-0 scoreline.<\/p>\n

Never in the history of England’s top flight has a team won four consecutive matches by three or more goals and kept a clean sheet on each occasion.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Man City have also not lost any of the last 10 Premier League matches that have been played between Christmas and New Year, winning eight times and drawing twice.<\/p>\n

As for Sean Dyche, he is still waiting for his first ever Premier League win over Pep Guardiola, losing 14 of 16 matches.<\/p>\n

If Forest fail to win on Saturday, Dyche will equal Steve Bruce’s all-time winless record against Sir Alex Ferguson.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 Imago \/ ZUMA Press Wire<\/p>\n

High stakes for both teams<\/p>\n

With this being Saturday’s 12.30pm kickoff, both teams can take significant steps towards their goals with maximum points.<\/p>\n

While Forest can move eight points clear of the relegation zone, Man City can move to the top of the standings before Arsenal host Brighton & Hove Albion later in the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nottingham Forest will be out to end a 30-year streak and prevent Manchester City from making top-flight history…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[4985,5906,218,372,5904,3553,5905,221,5903,217,101,3022,5907,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-335060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-epl","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-formula-1","12":"tag-golf","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-olympics","15":"tag-premier-league","16":"tag-rugby","17":"tag-sport","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-sports-mole","20":"tag-teams","21":"tag-tennis","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-united-kingdom","24":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}