Nottingham Forest is playing at home and they have quite impressive performance throughout this season so I think we can't underestimate Nottingham Forest now because on the other hand Manchester City's performance is very bad this season regardless of the motivation of both teams but I think Nottingham Forest and Man City have the same ambition to win the match I slightly favor Nottingham Forest in the match this weekend.
But whatever will happen later will not end the competition for the top 4 because the journey this season is still very long.
Manchester City has a 50% chance to win even playing away because they improved their performance at this time. As we have seen, they won dramatically versus Tottenham and Newcastle. The city is beginning to grow and has found the confidence to get back on the champions' track. While Nottingham, I see a decrease in performance in the last four matches. They lost when they met Newcastle and Fulham and had enough trouble beating Ipswich with a Penalty kick. And maybe The city will begin a new step if Rodri comes in as a starter as he has recovered from injury. This match will be a moment of awakening the citizen to restart their glory days, and be an interesting match if winning with a big score.
Leaning towards a City win for this weekend. Think they'll be especially motivated after the Champions League elimination. Fully acknowledge that Forest has home ground advantage and good form recently though. Will be an exciting match.
Currently the only hope for manchester city to qualify for the champions league next season is to end the season in the top 4 zone, so not only against nottingham forest, of course they should be motivated in every remaining match to win, because to restore the confidence and motivation of the team of course they must at least be able to end the season in the champions league zone later even though this season they are in a slump, both teams will face the match with great ambition and motivation to win, especially manchester city who is starting to rise at this time of course will be able to take advantage of nottingham condition which is slumping with 5 matches without a win, like you, I also believe the match later will be tight and also full of tension.