Manchester City's crisis - third straight loss

The last time that happened was almost exactly two years ago, when City went on four straight league defeats. Saturday night's loss comes on the heels of 1-2 away to Aston Villa and 0-1 at home to Brighton.

- It's football. We won the first seven games and that had never happened and now we've lost three in a row - that's football. We have to try to get better with every game we play, says City coach Enzo Maresca to Sky Sports.

And already City are six points behind last season's champions Arsenal.

Manchester City began league play with seven straight wins. This parallels the scandal that erupted, when it became clear that the club in the years 2009-2018 violated more than 100 of the Premier League football's financial rules. For that, Manchester City risks a powerful punishment - and now there is also a crisis on the football field.

At Nottingham Forest it was, for more obvious reasons, more cheerful. Striker Liam Delap - who belonged to Manchester City as a youngster - had a great show and scored two dream goals to both 2-0 and 3-1. The team thus moved up from the relegation zone.

- It has been going on. We've played well every week, but haven't got the ball in, says Liam Delap to Sky Sports.

- We did everything right, we took three points and we will bring a lot of joy into the national team break.