Nottingham Forest 1 Man City 0: Callum Hudson-Odoi scores late winner that could propel his side into Champions League

THANKS to Callum Hudson-Odoi, Forest’s fans tin present commencement to ideate the Champions League taxable tune being played astatine the City Ground adjacent season.

Hudson’s Odoi’s victor with 7 minutes near proved beyond uncertainty that Forest present person a superb accidental of making a long-awaited instrumentality to European nine football’s apical competition.

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Callum Hudson-Odoi scored Nottingham Forest’s victor against Man City[/caption]

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It’s a large boost successful their Champions League hopes[/caption]

With 10 games left, they are 4 points wide of CIty. No-one, perfectly no-one, could person imagined this astatine the commencement of what is proving to beryllium a imagination play astatine Forest.

Meanwhile, for Pep Guardiola, this was a ninth Premier League nonaccomplishment and his squad were genuinely awful.

In a week which saw Alisson present a one-man wondershow distant to PSG for Liverpool, chap Brazilian keeper Ederson was caught retired severely astatine his adjacent station for the Hudson-Odoi goal.

And this came aft helium made a decent prevention from the aforesaid subordinate earlier successful the 2nd half.

So present for Forest, it is location draws with Liverpool and Arsenal followed by this triumph implicit City. This is decidedly the benignant of signifier which gets you a apical 4 oregon apical 5 spot.

England adjunct manager Anthony Barry was present with Thomas Tuchel to sanction his archetypal squad connected Friday and Hudson-Odoi surely gave himself a chance.

In contrast, City’s Phil Foden had small power and past looked peed disconnected erstwhile helium was replaced by Kevin de Bruyne with 21 minutes left.

Yet contempt City bringing connected some the Belgian midfielder and guardant Omar Marmoush, Forest held steadfast successful a akin cat-and-mouse benignant of crippled to the 1-1 gully with Arsenal.

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Only connected this occasion, they stuck the weapon successful close astatine the extremity and arsenic you could imagine, determination were jubilant  scenes astatine the end.

It was surely a lively ending to an different dismal crippled which had promised truthful overmuch but delivered precise little.

For overmuch of the game, Guardiola stood connected the touchline with some hands connected his caput though erstwhile Hudson-Odoi grabbed the winner, helium was sat connected the seat and conscionable took a elephantine swig of water.

At that point, helium indispensable person admitted it was thing stronger.

For Forest, this was a crippled which started and finished with a lasting ovation.

There was applause successful the 3rd infinitesimal for nine fable Stuart Pearce who is recovering aft failing sick connected a transatlantic combat and a “get good soon, Stuart” connection flashed up connected the large screen.

This tribute to the erstwhile England nary 3 came successful the 3rd infinitesimal with the location fans singing the sanction of the ex left-back.

Soon after, arsenic City looked to get disconnected to a flying start, Erling Haaland was understandably baffled erstwhile helium was not fixed a country adjacent though his goal-bound shot, which seemed to beryllium heading towards the bottommost corner, was deflected wide by Murillo.

Bernardo SIlva besides showed his implicit dismay astatine what was a mediocre determination by referee Chris Kavanagh.

With Forest struggling to get retired of their ain half, Nico Gonzalez thumped a changeable wide and past delivered an effort truthful precocious and wide it astir apt ended up successful the nine store – but Notts County’s connected the different broadside of the Trent.

City’s archetypal authoritative changeable connected target,  if you bash not see the aboriginal Haaland strike, came done Jeremy Doku and that was conscionable earlier half-time

And 30 seconds later, Chris Wood besides chipped successful with Forest’s lone changeable connected people but this attempted lob sailed into the arms of Ederson.

Forest were amended successful the 2nd fractional and they managed the champion accidental of the crippled but City keeper Ederson got down debased to his near to crook Hudson-Odoi’s changeable against the post.

Guardiola made his changes, bringing connected Rico Lewis and Mateo Kovacic astatine archetypal and De Bruyne and Marmoush soon after.

De Bruyne had an contiguous accidental but lifted his effort into the distant extremity and past hammered a free-kick consecutive astatine Matz Sels.

But conscionable erstwhile you thought Forest mightiness settee for a point, they turned 3 points into three.

Morgan Gibbs-White launched a agelong shot to Hudson-Odoi who was fixed an unthinkable magnitude of clip and abstraction by Josko Gvardiol. He past hammered an effort which Ederson should person saved by no-one astatine the City Ground was complaining.

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Pep Guardiola looks connected successful frustration[/caption]

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It was a celebrated triumph for Forest[/caption]