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Manchester City: Predicting the starting day line-up

ByLiam Kennerley|
Players of Manchester City run during a team training session of Manchester City at the training ground of the German first division football team FC Bayern Munich in Munich, on July 21, 2016. / AFP / CHRISTOF STACHE (Photo credit should read CHRISTOF STACHE/AFP/Getty Images)
Players of Manchester City run during a team training session of Manchester City at the training ground of the German first division football team FC Bayern Munich in Munich, on July 21, 2016. / AFP / CHRISTOF STACHE (Photo credit should read CHRISTOF STACHE/AFP/Getty Images)
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As the start of the 2016/17 Premier League campaign gets ever closer, we take a look at what could be Pep Guardiola’s first ever Manchester City Premier League starting eleven. Will any new signings feature? What formation?

MANCHESTER, ENGLAND - JULY 08: Manchester City's manager Pep Guardiola poses for photographs outside the Etihad Stadium on July 8, 2016 in Manchester, England. (Photo by Barrington Coombs/Getty Images)
MANCHESTER, ENGLAND – JULY 08: Manchester City’s manager Pep Guardiola poses for photographs outside the Etihad Stadium on July 8, 2016 in Manchester, England. (Photo by Barrington Coombs/Getty Images)

In Pep’s recent teams we know he has liked to utilize the 4-2-3-1 formation, with a high pressing philosophy. This is what everyone is expecting from Pep’s City side and hopefully this is proved true and his way of playing will deliver.

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