Man City's possible front five vs Liverpool and winners from pre-season tour

Your Manchester City evening headlines for Monday, July 25:

Four winners and three losers from Man City pre-season tour of United States

Manchester City are back in the UK following their week-long tour of the United States, as they begin preparations for a Community Shield meeting with Liverpool on Saturday.

City's pre-season has been short but sweet this year - two matches yielded two wins as Pep Guardiola's side saw off Club America 2-1 in Houston before edging out Bayern Munich 1-0 in a storm-interrupted encounter in Green Bay on Saturday night.

The tour did not start off as Guardiola would have hoped; Phil Foden, John Stones and Ilkay Gundogan were not able to travel as they did not meet US entry requirements, so instead flew to Croatia to join up with the under-23s squad. Aymeric Laporte stayed behind in Manchester to continue his recovery from injury.

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Pep Guardiola might already know Man City's starting front five vs Liverpool

After electric storms, evacuations and Erling Haaland's maiden goal, Manchester City completed their short pre-season tour of the United States - and it was mostly a massive success.

Last year, two friendlies against Championship sides were City's preparations for a jam-packed Premier League season. So this season, some warm weather training and valuable match minutes will please Pep Guardiola - as will his side's performances, of course.

After a lively 2-1 win over Club América in Texas, the Blues continued to build momentum with a dominant but not emphatic 1-0 win against Bayern Munich at Lambeau Field. City had 22 shots across the 85 or so minutes, with the German champions only managing three, despite the quality of their starting XI.

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