Man City have advantage over Arsenal and Pep Guardiola has spotted it working again

It didn't escape Pep Guardiola's attention that the turnaround between Manchester City's win at Brighton on Thursday evening and the trip to Nottingham Forest is actually less than the much-criticised gap between the Real Madrid and Chelsea games last week.

On kick-off times, he is right. There is an hour less to prepare for Forest than they had against Chelsea. Given the Real Madrid game went to extra time, the gap is roughly the same. But Guardiola also factored in the travel time to return from the South Coast.

"We played at home against Madrid, we were in bed earlier than we are going to arrive today," he remarked after City's win at the Amex Stadium. "Arriving at 2-3am is not good, the players have one to two hours less to sleep and have to wake up for recovery."

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Guardiola and his players, notably Bernardo Silva, took aim at the FA and broadcasters after that Chelsea game for making City play twice in under three days. Now it will happen twice in a week. Guardiola put his players 'in the fridge' after the Wembley win, and will probably have put them straight back following the Brighton win.

After the early morning return to Manchester on Friday, there will be a low-key recovery session that day, and presumably a minor session on Saturday before travelling over to Nottingham. It's not ideal, but Guardiola declined the invitation to resume his scheduling complaints. Instead, he challenged his players to use their experience of such situations to their advantage.

"We are used to it. In the past when we won the trebles it was