Pep Guardiola has unearthed a priceless new Man City attacking threat

Dayot Upamecano must have been delighted to see that the Manchester City teamsheet did not contain Erling Haaland.

The Bayern defender had to watch Haaland cross exquisitely for Bernardo Silva to score at the Etihad last season after being caught in possession by Jack Grealish, and was then sat down completely by the Norwegian in the return leg of their Champions League quarter-final. Those two matches are not games he will want to relive.

What Upamecano probably could not have foreseen was that he would be getting blitzed by a 18-year-old pocket rocket tearing past him to help Manchester City find another way to score. If Haaland doesn't get you, it turns out Rico Lewis will.

It was only a friendly of course, yet how you perform against big teams in big arenas can still be a real test of quality and character. Lewis caught the eye against the same opponents in the United States last summer, before impressing in an August friendly in Barcelona to convince Pep Guardiola he was ready for action.

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Lewis surprised many by staking a place in the first team after the World Cup, and if it was a sign of his alarming potential that he helped John Stones to understand how to come out of defence into midfield the shocks have not stopped there. Guardiola went on to play Lewis as a No.8 ahead of the defensive midfielder, insisting he can thrive there, and against Bayern he was terrific in that role.

There had already been one surging run into the box on the underlap of Bernardo Silva against Bayern that created a shot for Stones, and Lewis went even better shortly after. Running onto a Kyle Walker pass on the inside right, Lewis brushed off Upamecano and