Manchester City visits a struggling Nottingham Forest in Premier League matchday 10

Some matches sell themselves once you put the table next to them. This is one of those: Manchester City travels to Nottingham Forest at The City Ground on Saturday, November 7, for matchday 10 of the 2026/2027 Premier League, with the gap between the two sides in the English league sitting at a staggering 15 points.

Kickoff is set for 2:30 PM (ARG/URU/CHI) and 12:30 PM (COL/ECU/PER), and fans in South America can catch it live on Disney+ Plan Premium.

Why this one's worth watching

City arrives as Arsenal's closest pursuer and cannot afford any more slip-ups if it wants to keep pace with the league leaders. Standing in the way is a Forest side sitting second-to-last in the table, so on paper the favorite is obvious. But English football has a way of complicating things: the team with the least need to produce an upset is often exactly the one that ends up playing at home with the urgency to grab points by any means necessary.

And urgency is something Forest has in spades. With just six points from nine matchdays and a single win all season, the club finds itself stuck in the relegation zone. It also arrives bruised after falling 2-0 to Brentford on the road, which makes the match against City a perfect chance to try to snap the bad run, even if the opponent couldn't be tougher.

On the other side, City has racked up 21 points and doesn't want to fall further behind Arsenal, which leads by three points. The team is coming off a surprising home stumble, a 1-0 loss to Brighton, but bounced back midweek with a 3-2 win over RB Leipzig in the Champions League, a result that gives it some restored confidence heading into the weekend.

Players to watch

For Forest, eyes will be on Liam Delap, Morgan Gibbs-White, Dan Ndoye and James McAtee, key pieces if the home side hopes to create danger up front. For City, the usual suspects: Erling Haaland, Enzo Fernandez, Rayan Cherki and Jeremy Doku, names that tend to make the difference when the Manchester club needs to crack open a tough match.

The most recent meeting between the two sides left a strange taste: they faced off on March 4 of this year at the Etihad Stadium and finished level at 2-2. Antoine Semenyo and Rodri scored for City, while Morgan Gibbs-White and Elliot Anderson found the net for Forest. A reminder that, no matter what the table says, anything can happen on the field.

With that result still fresh and both sides feeling the pressure, one to stay within reach of Arsenal, the other to pull away from the bottom, Saturday at the City Ground promises more spice than the gap in the standings would suggest.