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Man City vs Sparta Prague live early team news plus kick-off time and how to watch

Manchester City are in Champions League action tonight with Sparta Prague the visitors to the Etihad Stadium.

The Blues have four points from their opening two matches having followed up their 0-0 home draw with Inter Milan by thrashing Slovan Bratislava 4-0 in Slovakia. Pep Guardiola's side will be hot favourites to defeat Sparta but the Czech side do carry a threat and sit level on four points with City having beaten Red Bull Salzburg and drawn with Frankfurt.

City remain unbeaten this season in all competitions and head into tonight's match on the back of that dramatic late win over Wolves on Sunday afternoon. Guardiola will make changes from that contest amid fitness concerns and with the fixtures coming thick and fast in three different competitions over the next week.

Kick-off tonight is 8pm and the game is being shown live on TNT Sports.

You can follow all the build-up, action, reaction and analysis with our dedicated blog below.

Sparta are the second Champions League opponent in a row for City that have gone through qualifying.

Shamrock Rovers, Steaua Bucharest and Malmo were all beaten in order for them to make the main draw, and they've impressed in the main draw with a draw at Stuttgart and a victory over Salzburg.

But City should still be beating them - especially at home. The games at the Etihad are being targeted by Guardiola as the key to qualification.

Erling Haaland had a flying start to the season but he has been ground down in recent weeks with opponents double- and triple-marking him.

He will relish the chance to get some space tonight but will need some service. Ilkay Gundogan has struggled to find the relationship with him again and the best player for finding him, De Bruyne, is

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