I've been slacking on the City thread, but today's match has me fired up so here we go.
Guidetti did eventually go through to Celtic, which when coupled with the Negredo transfer left city a bit light at striker as a team who regularly employs two forwards. Of course, Jovetic immediately went out injured in an international friendly and now only Dzeko and Aguero remain.
A disappointing result against Stoke was followed by a relatively disappointing single point against Arsenal, whose second goal came as a result of a pretty blatant foul on Kompany. This is the sport, but I reserve the right to bring this up when City inevitably gets the benefit of a decision later in the season. In either case, what was more interesting to me is that City seems to be prioritizing the CL this season. Yaya was sat for the Arsenal match because he came back late from international duty and Nasri was not started either, presumably with an eye toward today's match against Bayern.
Unfortunately, Fernando injured himself against Stoke and has now been missing for 3 of the matches he was brought in for (Arsenal, Bayern, Chelsea). This is a pretty big blow, but Bayern are dealing with an injury crisis of their own. Neither team will be sporting their best XI today, that's for sure, and City's is far closer than Bayern's. Sagna is starting in place of Zabaleta today and it looks like MDM in place of Mangala, who strangely still has yet to play for City. Navas seems to have earned a start after a very impressive performance against Arsenal. Dzeko leads the line instead of Aguero, but Dzeko has a pretty good record against Bayern and I think the rotation is necessary anyway with only two strikers. Let Aguero run circles around Cahill and Terry.
City's European away kit is also newly release and it is on the awful Nike 3rd kit template, featuring purple and yellow. No word yet on the release of United's European Away kit.