The major European giants have taken advantage of the offseason to go to North America to pan for gold, and Premier League teams have gathered in the United States to train and prepare for the upcoming Premier League. Among them, Premier League champions Manchester City only arranged two warm-up matches this summer, one against Mexico America, and as a result, with De Bruyne's double, Manchester City beat Mexico America 2-1 to win the pre-season opening. In the second warm-up match, Manchester City will face the European giants Bayern, Guardiola's team will return to England after these two warm-up matches, the first official game of the new season, the Community Shield, will begin, and Manchester City and Liverpool will compete for the first championship trophy of the new season.
Manchester City vs. Bayern, Guardiola sits on a luxurious squad of 1.05 billion euros, with stars such as De Bruyne, Mahrez, Glalis, B-seat, Rodri and other stars, and the value of the entire Manchester City team is the most expensive in Europe. Nagelsmann has a squad of 876 million euros, with Mane, Sane, Müller, Koeman, Gnabry, Kimmich, Neuer and other famous players in the squad. The combined value of the two teams is 1.926 billion euros, and the historical record shows that in the last six meetings between the two teams, Manchester City has achieved a record of 3 wins and 3 losses, which is equal to Bayern.
Manchester City's squad this summer has seen a lot of changes in and out, with Jesus, Sterling and Zinchenko leaving the squad to join other premier league giants. Guardiola strengthened the team's biggest shortcoming center this summer, Haaland, Alvarez joined together, signing Phillips to replace the departing back Fernandinho, and Manchester City's lineup tended to be perfect. In the pre-season opening game, Alvarez started without scoring a goal and Haaland's debut at Manchester City will be in a match against Bayern.
Bayern invested heavily in signings in this summer's transfer market, signing Mane, De Ligt and Gravenberg for a total of 117.5 million euros, making it the team with the most money to draw up so far this summer. Although Bayern brought in strong reinforcements, the two major stars of Levan and Jules left, especially Levan's departure hit Bayern harder, and so far, Bayern have not been able to find a replacement for Levan. Bayern also had only two pre-season matches, against Washington United and Manchester City, and in the first match against Washington United, Bayern won 6-2 to win the opening game.
Both Manchester City and Bayern are attack-oriented teams, and the clashes between the two teams often lead to big scores, and in the last six meetings, Manchester City have won 3-2 in three games, in 2012/13, 2013/14 and the 2018 pre-season Guinness Cup, Manchester City beat Bayern. As Mane returned to Africa to receive his second African Footballer of the Year trophy, Mane will be sidelined in this match against Manchester City. Haaland is The most important signing for Manchester City this summer, Haaland has just passed his 22nd birthday, before joining Manchester City, Haaland and Bayern have been rumored, during the Bundesliga, Haaland has played against Bayern a total of 7 times, scoring 5 goals, this game is Haaland's debut with Manchester City, how the Norwegian devil Buou will perform is the focus of fan attention.
City chose to sacrifice Sterling and Jesus for the introduction of Haaland. Haaland has the highest conversion rate of non-penalty shots in the past three seasons, indicating that Haaland is very capable of seizing opportunities in front of goal. Manchester City midfield core De Bruyne is the player who has created the most opportunities in the five major leagues in Europe in the past three seasons, reaching 303 times, but most of them have been wasted by striker players such as Sterling, so how the connection between De Bruyne and Haaland can produce in this game is the focus of Pep Guardiola and Manchester City fans. At 7:00 a.m. Beijing time on July 24, Manchester City will play the final game of the preseason with Bayern in the United States.