Man City keep pressure up in title race after victory at Nottingham Forest

Manchester City kept up the pressure in the Premier League title battle as they beat Nottingham Forest 2-0 to move to within a point of leaders Arsenal.

Pep Guardiola's men, who triumphed at the City Ground thanks to goals from Josko Gvardiol and substitute Erling Haaland, who was returning from a muscle injury, are just a point adrift of the Gunners with a game in hand.

Gvardiol opened the scoring for the defending champions in the 32nd minute as he headed in Kevin De Bruyne's corner as Forest were down to 10 men following an injury to Neco Williams,

The home side squandered plenty of chances, with Chris Wood particularly wasteful in the box.

Jack Grealish made way for Haaland in the 62nd minute and it didn't take long for the Norwegian to add to his tally to 32 goals as he collected a lovely pass from De Bruyne and finished superbly after wrong-footing the Forest defence.

After the game Haaland told Sky Sportrs: "Its an important win, it does not matter how we do it, and it is good to be back.

"We knew it was going to be a fight, and the pitch was not the easiest to play on but we cannot complain, it is about winning and that is exactly what we did."

Guardiola said when asked about the pressure of a tight title battle: "The pressure is how you play. If you play good and control the game then people say you don't feel the pressure, if you play bad people say you feel the pressure.

"In certain moments we suffered. We were lucky today the pitch was so dry, because the chances they missed that was the reason why. We were lucky today that the pitch was in these conditions."

Forest boss Nuno Espírito Santo said: "We played a good game, were compact, organised and had chances. We did a good job regarding how hard it is to