Preston North End manager Alex Neil has claimed he knows Manchester City's weakness and his side are aiming to exploit it during the upcoming Carabao Cup clash.
City are the current holders of the trophy, defeating Chelsea at Wembley earlier this year, and travel to Deepdale in great form after a sensational 8-0 win against Watford at the weekend.
The hosts have also started the season well, a win against Birmingham at the weekend saw them climb to 3rd in the Championship table.
Neil admitted it will be a mammoth task to defeat City and progress to the next round, but claimed that he knew their weakness.
"Man City and Liverpool are so far ahead of the rest," he said in his pre-match press conference.
"If you play any of the others it’d be more of a level playing field.
"Every team has a weakness. We know what their’s is, it’s whether we can get into a position to exploit it.
"It’s so hard to get into a position to do that.
"Man City’s stats are frightening, their average passing stat before they score a goal is 27 passes and the second highest is 13 passes.
"It’s going to be a mammoth task for us but we’ll give it our best shot."
Preston midfielder Ben Pearson believes that his side may have the psychological advantage and confirmed City's massive win at the weekend has no bearing on this fixture.
Pearson added in the conference: "Psychologically when a big team comes to a smaller team it can favour the smaller.
"I don’t look too much into their win at the weekend.
"Anything can happen, it’s 11v11 and we have to execute our game plan perfectly.
"We’ve just got to do our best and see where it takes us."
