Pep Guardiola gives blunt assessment of Man City's draw with Nottingham Forest

Manchester City needed to "score goals" and "concede fewer" in Wednesday's 2-2 draw with visiting Nottingham Forest, according to Pep Guardiola.

The Man City manager was understandably not in the mood to wax poetic about the match, in which the Sky Blues lost ground to Arsenal in the Premier League title race due to the Gunners' win against Brighton.

Guardiola's men squandered two leads on Wednesday, leading to a curt answer from the manager when asked by the BBC what his team could have done better: "Score goals."

To his credit, Guardiola expanded on his thoughts when asked what Man City did well during the match, pointing to his team's chance-creation as a positive in an otherwise disappointing evening.

"In general there were many good things," he said. "I would like to concede fewer, but it's not about analysing one specific action. I never point fingers at my players.

"We did everything, had the chances at the end and in first half. The momentum. But something always happens and we could not win."

Bernardo Silva, who played the full 90 minutes on Wednesday, explained the team's dissatisfaction in their inability to hold off a Forest attack that ranks as the second-weakest in the Premier League while also not being able to convert more of their 19 shots taken during the draw.

"Quite frustrating because playing at home and twice we were leading and we couldn't keep the result," Silva told TNT Sports. "At the end we had a lot of chances, they went up twice and scored two goals. Sometimes football is like this.

"They are a good team, a very good team, with a lot of quality. Five at the back, normally they play four but they decide to go more defensive, more patient, it's always difficult to break through a block of five.

"They were patient enough to punish us when they were able to counter, we weren't stable enough in terms of not allowing them to find spaces. Especially at 2-1, we allowed them to run a few times.

"I feel we should have won today with the chances we created, but sometimes football is like this."

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