Updates from the 8pm GMT kick-offGuardiola: ‘I’d rather live in the Maldives than manage United’And you can email Scott here with your thoughts 7.52pm GMT
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Why has Pep left Sergio Aguero and Gabriel Jesus on the bench? “I decide for this team,” he tells Sky Sports. Was it anything to do with the last game against United? “No.” Will it be a different game? “We will try to make a lot of passes.” Does it suit that the first leg is away? “It doesn’t matter.” Giving the square root of nothing away there, just the right side of disdain. His old mentor Louis van Gaal would be proud. 7.47pm GMT
Some late, breaking team news.
Manchester City have two big names positioned in the away end tonight: Oleksandr Zinchenko and Taylor Harwood-Bellis, the latter, by the looks of it, popping into the little room to do some falling water.