It’s a victory that wasn’t achieved in an easy way, but Manchester City took it anyway: winning at Nottingham Forest thanks to goals from Josko Gvardiol and Erling Haaland, the reigning English champions. come within one point of Arsenal, the current leader of the Premier League. They have a late match to play, at Tottenham, on May 14, which will perhaps allow them to overtake the Gunners just before the last day of the Championship. In the meantime, even tired, like Rodri who lost a lot of balls, they stretched a little further their series of invincibility, which has lasted since December 6 (defeat at Aston Villa, 0-1).
Haaland, effective return
Beyond the state of mind of his group, Pep Guardiola can rejoice at the return of Haaland, who had not played since April 17 due to an injury, and who had not scored in the game since April 6. The Norwegian striker scored on his second ball, nine minutes after coming on, and showed that he remained a considerable asset in the title race. With a real scorer, Forest could perhaps have grabbed a point this Sunday, but Chris Wood had two huge chances (38th, 47th), which is twice too many to hope to score a blow against City.
The Citizens suffered a little too much against a team fighting not to be relegated, however, to say that their end of the season will be peaceful. Even if they still face a few opponents who have nothing left to play for (Wolverhampton, Fulham in particular), they know that everyone will want to get their scalp. Nothing will be easy for them. Nor for Arsenal, for that matter.
