Man City maintains its unblemished record at the Etihad Stadium under Pep Guardiola.

The Etihad Stadium was always going to be a big test for Nottingham Forest, but an early goal from Phil Foden threw the game plan out the window and they never really recovered.

Rodri lofted a brilliant through pass into the path of Kyle Walker, whose delicate touch back was hammered home first time by Foden.

You feared the worse at that point because Forest and Man City were fully dominating possession and opportunities. It wasn’t long until Erling Haaland got on the scoresheet, heading home Nunes’ cross.

The first half passed without much more activity, and presenter Richard Keys grumbled in the beIN SPORTS studio that Forest had to make it gritty and leave a mark on them.

That’s exactly what happened after a dispute between Rodri and Morgan Gibbs-White resulted in the Spaniard getting sent off for pushing the Forest man in the throat a minute into the second half.

In actuality, Gibbs-White understood exactly what he was doing by falling so drastically, but Rodri was irresponsible to place himself in this predicament.

With a man advantage, Steve Cooper made forward substitutes and they saw more of the ball, but Man City defended effectively and Ederson was not put to the test as much as he could have been.