Pep Guardiola outlines plans for Erling Haaland's Man City debut against Bayern Munich Pep Guardiola has confirmed that Erling
Haaland will be assessed on Saturday to see if he can make his Manchester City debut in their pre-season clash with Bayern Munich this weekend, Pep Guardiola has confirmed.
New signing Haaland, 22, was an unused substitute in Wednesday's friendly win over Club America in Houston, and Guardiola said after the game that he was never in the lineup. The Norwegian didn't warm up with the City team and wasn't dressed in training gear all night at NRG Park.
However, Guardiola hinted after that game that Haaland would feature against Bayern this weekend, with the striker himself tweeting that he hoped to make his Green Bay debut.
And speaking ahead of the Bayern game, Guardiola confirmed how City plan to use Haaland in their second and final pre-season game ahead of next week's Community Shield against Liverpool.
Guardiola said: "If there's nothing wrong in training this afternoon [Friday] or tonight [he doesn't] feel bad and fall out of bed and break his ankle, then he'll play."
City have managed Haaland's fitness and workload in training in the US, with Guardiola confirming he only trained twice in the build-up to the win at Club America. He has since been pictured in training and trained in an open training session at Lambeau Field on Friday following Guardiola's comments, as did Ruben Dias, who missed Wednesday's first friendly due to illness.
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