Can Pep Guardiola do it on a temperate afternoon in Stoke? Quite probably, unless the home side start more quickly than they did at Middlesbrough. last week. Mark Hughes waits on the fitness of Xherdan Shaqiri, whose free-kick illuminated a much better second half, before deciding who faces his old club and will have to continue with another City old boy, the 40-year-old Shay Given, in goal while Jack Butland is laid low. Guardiola has no such issues; his own first-choice keeper, Willy Caballero, is fighting fit. Nick Ames
Kick-off Saturday 12.30pm
Venue Britannia Stadium
Last season Stoke City 2 Manchester City 0
Live Sky Sports 1
Referee Mike Dean
This season G1, Y4, R0, 4.00 cards per game
Odds H 4-1 A 8-11 D 3-1
Stoke City
Subs from Haugaard, Muniesa, Cameron, Allen, Adam, Sobhi, Joselu, Walters, Crouch
Doubtful Shaqiri (calf)
Injured Butland (ankle, 27 Aug), Johnson (thigh, 27 Aug), Afellay (knee, Jan), Ireland (leg, Feb)
Suspended None
Form D
Discipline Y5 R0
Leading scorer Shaqiri 1
Manchester City
Subs from Hart, Kolarov, Zabaleta, Delph, Fernando, Navas, Nasri, Bony, Iheanacho, Zinchenko, Adarabioyo, Denayer, Mangala
Doubtful Sagna (knock)
Injured Kompany (thigh, unknown), Gundogan (knee, 10 Sep), Sané
(hamstring, 27 Aug)
Suspended None
Form W
Discipline Y1 R0
Leading scorer Agüero 1
