Barcelona Vs Manchester City

Nou Camp

Wednesday 19th August

kick Off 21:15

While most of the Premier League have a competitive games this week, City have arranged a trip to the Nou Camp to take on Barcelona. Although I am not sure how seriously this will be taken, seen as the season has now got underway it is still a game I am very much looking forward to see how City compete against the European Champions.

After the fantastic start to the season on Saturday against Blackburn this game is an important step to reaching match fitness for many of the players and I am sure Mark Hughes will make a few changes to give some of the players that missed out at weekend a chance to see some action. I would expect to see the likes of Zabaleta, Tevez, Onuoha etc on the field.

Mark Hughes has a very difficult job this season trying to keep all his stars happy, we have a large squad and with no European football it will be difficult keeping players who are spending a lot of time sitting on the bench happy. We have already seen Martin Petrov voice his concern at what he thinks will be a lack of first team football this season.