Manchester City get their pre-season tour underway with a tricky check towards Italian champions Inter Milan.
Enzo Maresca will take cost of his first recreation on the membership after taking on from Pep Guardiola, so followers will get to see a new-look Metropolis facet.
A number of World Cup stars from either side stay absent, together with John Stones, who has simply made the change to Inter.
However it ought to nonetheless be an entertaining contest for the impartial. Meet up with all of the group information right here on 101GreatGoals.
Manchester Metropolis group information
Manchester Metropolis beginning XI: Donnarumma, Lewis, Khusanov, Gvardiol, Mfuni, Kovacic, Reijnders, Semenyo, Foden (C), Savinho, Mubama
Manchester Metropolis substitutes: Bettinelli, Wint, Chabot, Nico, Ait-Nouri, Reis, Echeverri, Monga, McAidoo, Braithwaite, Mukasa, Alleyne, Sangare, F. Samba, Heskey, Henderson-Corridor, Parker
Inter Milan group information
Inter Milan beginning XI: Martinez, Pavard, Bisseck, Augusto, Diouf, Barella, Stankovic, Mkhitaryan, Dimarco, Esposito, Iddrissou
Inter Milan substitutes: To observe
Find out how to watch Manchester Metropolis v Inter Milan: TV and on-line streams
Manchester Metropolis v Inter Milan kicks off at 12:30pm UK time on Saturday 1st August, which is 7:30pm native time in Hong Kong.
There isn’t any free-to-air broadcast within the UK, however the match shall be proven dwell worldwide by way of Metropolis’s subscription streaming service, CITY+. Viewers in Italy also can watch by way of DAZN.
Stats for Manchester Metropolis v Inter Milan
- That is Manchester Metropolis’s first match since Pep Guardiola’s departure after a decade in cost, with Enzo Maresca taking the reins
- The perimeters have met twice competitively, each within the final three years: Metropolis gained the 2022/23 Champions League last in Istanbul due to Rodri’s second-half strike, whereas a 2024/25 Champions League league-phase assembly completed 0-0
- Inter enter the sport as reigning Serie A champions, having gained the title by 11 factors and added the Coppa Italia to finish a home double
- The golf equipment have additionally met twice in pre-season tournaments, with Metropolis profitable the 2011 Dublin Tremendous Cup 3-0 and Inter profitable 3-0 in Baltimore in 2010
Prediction for Manchester Metropolis v Inter Milan
Pre-season outcomes ought to all the time be taken with a pinch of salt, significantly with Metropolis fielding an unfamiliar line-up in Maresca’s first recreation and several other of Inter’s personal senior gamers nonetheless absent.
Nonetheless, Chivu’s facet are additional into their pre-season programme and have proven higher match sharpness of their two warm-up fixtures to this point, which ought to rely for one thing even in a pleasant.
Prediction: Manchester Metropolis 1-2 Inter Milan
