City have been reduced to battling for a place in next season’s Champions League after a dismal campaign.

Nottingham Forest’s Callum Hudson-Odoi struck late to give his side a 1-0 home win over Manchester City in the Premier League on Saturday and boost their chances of a top-four finish and prized place in next year’s Champions League.

The 24-year-old winger picked up a glorious diagonal pass from Morgan Gibbs-White before running into the box and driving the ball past City goalkeeper Éderson at his near post from a tight angle in the 83rd minute.

In a game of few chances, Pep Guardiola’s visiting team came closest when Nico Gonzalez’s long-range shot scraped the outside of the post in the first half, while Hudson-Odoi saw a curled effort pushed onto the woodwork by Éderson after the break.

With six titles in the past seven seasons, City have rarely had to worry about their place in the Premier League’s top four in the Pep Guardiola era.

Yet they left the City Ground looking anxiously over their shoulders after a first league loss to Forest since 1997.

Fifth-placed Chelsea, just one point adrift of City, will go above the champions if they beat lowly Leicester on Sunday.