Confirmed Line-Ups: Palermo vs Manchester City (Pre-Season Friendly)

Manchester City travel to southern Italy to take on fellow City Football Group side Palermo in their final pre-season outing before the new competitive season.

With their last competitive outing ending in defeat at the FIFA Club World Cup at the hands of Al Hilal in the last-16 stage, City returned to action with a behind-closed-doors friendly at the City Football Academy last weekend.

Having been in training for a week, it was a single goal from Rico Lewis combining with Oscar Bobb that secured a narrow 1-0 win over Championship side Preston North End as Pep Guardiola deployed two different line-ups across the 90 minutes.

The meeting with Palermo in Sicily will be the final run-out for City before next weekend’s Premier League opener against Wolverhampton Wanderers and the Saturday evening kick-off at Molineux.

Among those not present in Palermo this weekend will be a trio of James McAtee, Jack Grealish, and Stefan Ortega – all of whom have simply been left out, presumably owing to their uncertain transfer futures.

As for those deemed not fully-fit by the club, a quartet of Josko Gvardiol, Rodri, Phil Foden, and Claudio Echeverri fell into that category, while Mateo Kovacic, Kalvin Phillips, and Marcus Bettinelli are all injured.

Manchester City’s 22-man squad in Palermo for the game is as follows: Ederson, Trafford; Lewis, Khusanov, Nunes, Dias, Akanji, Stones, Ake, Ait-Nouri, O’Reilly; Nico, Gundogan, Bernardo, Reijnders, Mukasa, Cherki; Bobb, Savinho, Marmoush, Haaland, Doku.

Ahead of kick-off at Stadio Renzo Barbera, here is how both Filippo Inzaghi and Pep Guardiola have lined up their respective Palermo and Manchester City sides in pre-season friendly action!

Palermo

Starting XI: Gomis, Augello, Gomes, Segre, Brunori, Ranocchia, Gyasi, Bani, Pohjanpalo, Diakité, Ceccaroni

Substitutes: Bardi, Cutrona, Di Bartolo, Palumbo, Vasic, Nicolosi, Avena, Le Douaron, Pierozzi, Blin, Peda, Corona, Squillacioti, Brutto

Manchester City

Starting XI: Trafford; Lewis, Khusanov, Stones, Ait-Nouri; Nico, O’Reilly; Bobb, Cherki, Marmoush; Haaland

Substitutes: Ederson, Dias, Reijnders, Ake, Doku, Gundogan, Bernardo, Akanji, Savinho, Nunes, Mukasa

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