It was master v pupil as Pep Guardiola locked horns with Vincent Kompany, his former captain at City.
Kompany’s Burnley stormed to promotion across 2022/23 while Guardiola’s City achieved an amazing Treble – so it was a game between two confident teams.
There have been changes in personnel since our previous campaign ended in Champions League glory, with Mateo Kovacic and Josko Gvardiol in the squad for this season opener while Ilkay Gundogan along with Riyad Mahrez have since departed after sterling service in the sky blue.
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Guardiola spoke in his press conference of taking it ‘step by step’ as his team look to ‘climb the mountain’ again – and he’ll have been looking for his team to take a positive stride forward in this one at Turf Moor.
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