City host Burnley this afternoon in the FA Cup third round and yet, the majority of headlines focus on the Blues’ alleged targets in the January transfer window.

Familiar faces feature in the repeated rumours but first, let’s focus on the task at hand.

Pep Guardiola shared his thoughts ahead of today’s clash and so has Clarets manager Sean Dyche.

The Burnley boss, who has guided his side to an impressive seventh place in the Premier League table with just two defeats on the road all season, is feeling confident.

He told the Club’s official website: “All teams are beatable, but with very good reason they are being talked about with this sort of ‘Invincibles’ as you call it because they have a very deep squad, a very good manager and they have some highly talented players.

“They have mainly been connecting that with the Arsenal group of a few years ago.

“I understand why, but equally no-one in football is against getting beaten.

“They might try and be against it, but it just comes your way sometime.

“I think that’s the window of doubt for them, that every team that comes says: ‘why wouldn’t it be us, so let’s go and take the game on?’

“We will certainly have that attitude towards the game, while not being naïve.

“However many changes they make they are still a very strong unit and we have seen that over the last couple of years.

“But I’ve really enjoyed working with this group here this year. I have all of my groups, but this year in particular I think there’s a little bit more depth in it and true competition in our group, so we are in a good place.

“Now it’s ‘let the whistle blow and take the game on’.”

https://www.mancity.com/news/first-team/media-watch/2018/january/man-city-news-transfer-gossip-burnley-fa-cup-sean-dyche-alexis-sanchez-lionel-messi

MCI lineup

Bravo
Otamendi
Stones
Silva D.
Sterling
Gundogan
Danilo
ZinChenko
Same
Fernandinho
Aguero

Game on!

First corner to City but Burnley clears

Sane wasteful there

City wants to do

a treble by all possible means

Freekick to City in the D

Chance wasted again!

Burnley almost scored but City survived

Burnley scores!
Error by Stones

Gundogan does not impose himself on the match like Kevin

HT
Man City 0
Burnley 1

2nd half starts

Danilo gets yellow card

Sane is busy making a mess of himself

Goallllll
Aguero scores

Goaaaaaaalllllll
Aguero again

Two assists by Gundogan

City scored 2 goals in 1 minute

What a miss by Sane
That should have been third goal

Man City struggling to deal with aerial balls

Goaaaaaallllllllll
Sane scores assist by Silva

Walker in ZinChenko out

Aguero almost got his hatrick there!
Burnley survived again

De bruyne in Gundogan out

Aguero out Bernardo in

Goaaaaaallllllllll
Bernardo scores assist by Sane

City making a mockery of Burnley
The match has been reduced to walking pace

Game over Man City 4 Burnley 1
Man City goes into 4th round of FA cup