Erling Haaland's two minutes of madness sum up Man City's biggest problem vs Nottingham Forest

Haaland's off-day

Erling Haaland is one goal off becoming the Manchester City player with the most Premier League goals in a season, but that record was never in danger of being broken at Nottingham Forest. On the back of arguably his best all-round performance at Arsenal in the week, Haaland was given the man-to-man treatment by ex-Atletico Madrid defender Felipe at the City Ground and had to venture wide to get a sight of the ball. When it came to him in the box, he was uncharacteristically lax and a couple of chances went begging from a sloppy first touch.

In the second half, two minutes summed up Haaland's bump down to earth, as he got goalside of Joe Worrall and looked to set for a strike - but with the most minimal of touches to his shoulder, the striker flung himself to the floor instead. After Pep Guardiola earned a booking for his protests, Haaland looked to make amends when Phil Foden's shot was spilled, but took to long and lifted his rebound onto the bar. The follow-up from five yards almost found the top tier of the Bridgford End, and City were later made to pay for their wastefulness as Forest found their equaliser soon after.

Set piece City

City are rarely associated with set pieces or ugly games, but they followed up a streetwise win at Arsenal with another feisty encounter at Forest in a game of few openings. The Blues were on top, for the most part, using their possession and tried to protect their first-half lead with various 'dark arts' that infuriated the home crowd.

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Bernardo's goal came from the second phase of a corner, and City could have had three others from corners as unmarked headers failed to hit the back of the net. City