Man City vs Club America LIVE predictions and team news as Erling Haaland set for Blues debut

Manchester City get their pre-season underway in the early hours of Thursday morning as they take on Club America in Houston.

City are returning back to action a lot later than their Premier League rivals but Pep Guardiola's side will finally take to the field when they play their first of two friendlies in the United States against the Mexican outfit.

It could be a new-look City side, too, with Erling Haaland, Kalvin Phillips, Julian Alvarez and Stefan Ortega all hoping to pull on the shirt for the first time.

The Blues are without Phil Foden, John Stones, Ilkay Gundogan and Aymeric Laporte who haven't made the trip across the pond and Aleks Zinchenko who has left to finalise a move to Arsenal but Guardiola has plenty of options as several of the club's promising youngsters are in the squad.

You can follow all the action from the match in our LIVE blog below.

Manchester City continued a fantastic summer off the pitch as their new away kit broke club records ahead of its debut appearance.

Pep Guardiola and his first team will wear the red-and-black striped shirt for their first friendly of their pre-season tour when they take on Club America in Houston on Wednesday night. And the kit has already gone down a storm with supporters, with City selling more in the first day of sales than they did for any other kit — eclipsing the previous record set just last year with their all-white look.

Puma's latest effort harks back to a glorious era for the club in the late 1960s and early 1970s that included domestic and European glory when coach Malcolm Allison insisted on the colours having been taken by the all-conquering AC Milan side at that time. The Blues also took inspiration from that kit in the 2011/12 season when they