Manchester City will get their pre-season under way in earnest on Thursday morning when they face Club America.
The Blues will take on the Mexican outfit at 1:30am (8:30pm local time on Wednesday evening) at the NRG Stadium in Houston, with a squad of 25 players for Pep Guardiola to chose from. However, Ruben Dias may be a doubt after he missed open training on Tuesday, while Oleksandr Zinchenko has left the camp to complete his transfer to Arsenal.
Phil Foden, Ilkay Gundogan and John Stones did not travel with the group as they did not meet US entry requirements, while Aymeric Laporte stayed in the UK to continue his recovery from injury. In the context of those absences, as well as the need for new players to bed-in and adapt, there are five players who will be extra keen to impress Guardiola and stake their claim to be in his line-up for the opening day of the Premier League season.
