The first-team teams chosen by Pep Guardiola and Rúben Amorim for the game at the Etihad are already known. In the lions there are five changes compared to the game with Arouca last weekend: Neto, Porro, Tabata, Ugarte and Paulinho return to the coach’s initial options.
In the English team, João Cancelo and Bernardo Silva will start, highlighting the debut in the Champions League of the young English defender, 19 years old, CJ Egan-Riley, in the center of the defence.
Sporting: Adam; Neto, Coates and Gonçalo Inácio; Pedro Porro, Ugarte, Tabata and Matheus Reis; Sarabia, Paulinho and Slimani
Manchester City: Ederson; Stones, Egan-Riley, Laporte and Zinchenko; Fernandinho, Gundogan and Bernardo Silva; Sterling, Foden and Gabriel Jesus
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