Two clubs looking to return to form will do battle today in a friendly between VfB Stuttgart and Manchester City. The match scheduled for 12 p.m. ET will be held at the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Stuttgart and can be live streamed here free. Additional TV coverage can be found on beIN Sports.
What They're Saying
VfB Stuttgart manager Alexander Zorniger (via Whoateallthepies): "The players are allowed to wear headphones on the team bus, but not in public. There's a visual reason for this. A 5'5″ small player looks ridiculous when the headphones are as large as the whole head."
Manchester City winger Raheem Sterling (via MCFC): "My aim is just to take things slowly, do my best playing for Manchester City Football Club and hopefully that will bring me success."
Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini: "Raheem is a very good player and that's why we brought him here. He has a lot of speed and I'm sure that in the future he will demonstrate why we paid so much for him."
Tactical Preview
Player to Watch: Having cost Manchester City £49 million, Sterling's scoring record with Liverpool has come into question. Last season, the 20-year-old finished with just seven goals, but managed to provide seven assists and an average of 2.1 key passes. Always a threat on the dribble, Sterling beat defenders an average of 2.9 times in 2014-15.
Manchester City's Projected Lineup (4-2-3-1): Hart; Denayer, Mangala, Sagna, Kolarov; Silva, Evans; Navas, Sterling, Garcia; Iheanacho
Note: Credit all statistics to officially licensed data from Opta Sports (via WhoScored).
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