Man City's biggest strength vs Arsenal became their weakness at Nottingham Forest

Pep Guardiola and Kyle Walker both offered contrasting verdicts on Manchester City's draw at Nottingham Forest. Both are right - but perhaps the best analysis of the game came from the opposite dugout.

Guardiola said: "It is one of the best games we have played but... we should be more aggressive," as he pointed to City's host of missed chances as an off-day, rather than a symptom of anything more concerning. "We didn’t score and that’s all, what can I say?"

Walker, though, was more critical. He called the result unacceptable and called on City's forwards to be more clinical, and the defence to be better in standing firm on the occasions when the attack is misfiring to hold on for a 1-0 win. Walker is said to have been furious in the tunnel at the City Ground immediately after full-time.

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It's true that City had both a good overall performance and also needed to be better at both ends. City's expected goals was 2.78, which is more remarkable considering the goal they did get will have had a low xG value. Phil Foden, Aymeric Laporte, Erling Haaland and Rodri were all guilty of wasting good chances, and on another day City would have had four or five before Chris Wood's strike.

For Guardiola, that appears to be an easier problem to fix going forward. The chances were there, the finishing wasn't, and there were no scathing attacks on City needed after this performance.

He will be concerned, though, that yet another team has been able to take points off City with one of their only shots - look at Everton's draw at the Etihad, Liverpool's win at Anfield, or the 1-1 at Aston Villa. Even when City dropped points against Brentford, Tottenham