Chelsea vs Manchester City: Live score, team news and updates

Just look at all the happy faces.

This is truly what pre-season is for. Most of these fans will never have been able to see Manchester City play.

It's a special day for so many people, whatever happens, they will remember it for a very long time.

You love to see it.

Pep seems a happy chap, doesn't he?

Unlike Kieran, when Manchester City arrived they were bone dry. They look fairly relaxed.

They enter a stadium in the US for the final time this summer as they head home after this.

Can they finish on a high?

Kieran Gill, Mail Sport, at the Ohio Stadium:

Oh, I was wrong then.

After all the talk about game time, Erling Haaland is indeed OK to start in Columbus.

Kalvin Phillips starts at the heart of defence again - he did well there last time out.

Other than that, Pep Guardiola just makes the two changes.

Stefan Ortega is one of them, he starts in goal instead of Ederson.

Look who is back for Chelsea!

Moises Caicedo comes straight into the team after he joined pre-season late due to Copa America.

He partners up with Romeo Lavia and Enzo Fernandez in midfield.

Does that mean Kiernan Desbury-Hall is on the wing? It looks like he could be.

Levi Colwill also returns to fill in at the heart of defence.

Enzo Maresca, Chelsea boss, speaking on Conor Gallagher:

Right, it's time to approach one of the biggest stories of the week.

Conor Gallagher got a bit of a shock when he returned from holiday.

The boyhood Chelsea fan has been banished from the Blues first-team as he looks set to leave Stamford Bridge.

He has been told that he will not train with the senior squad when he reports for training.

Pretty brutal, right?

It seems we won't be seeing him in the Blue strip of Chelsea much longer.

This is why I love pre-season - there are so many goals!

There have been 16 goals in Manchester City's three matches in the US, so far. That's a hell of a lot of goals.

Chelsea have been engrossed in action-packed matches too, there have been 12 goals in their three matches stateside.

Between the two teams though, they have only won one game out of those six, and that was the Blues' 3-0 win over Club America.

So, expect goals, and expect a draw.

Will we see Erling Haaland tonight?

I certainly wouldn't bet on it.

The Norweigan striker was taken off at half-time in their match with Barcelona, and he seemed uncomfortable.

Pep Guardiola has since said that he wants to manage Haaland's workload before the Community Shield and not take any 'risks'.

So, it looks like he could be rested today...

It's a battle that reminds me of Obi-Wan Kenobi against Anakin Skywalker.

Well, apart from they won't have lightsabers.

Anyway, enough of me being a geek, today will see Pep Guardiola face off against his old right-hand man Enzo Maresca.

Maresca once worked his way through the ranks as a coach at Manchester City before becoming assistant manager.

But now he dons a different colour of blue, a Chelsea blue.

How will he fare against his old boss, the man that taught him so much?

Now this is going to be a cracker!

We have seen some belting fixtures already during this pre-season, and this has the potential to be the best one yet.

Enzo Maresca's Chelsea's fourth match of their US tour is perhaps their toughest as they face Pep Guardiola's Manchester City.

The two fixtures between the sides in the Premier League last season were box office, let's hop for more of the same today.

Columbus, Ohio, is ready, I am ready, but are you ready?

Get yourselves strapped in with a cuppa on hand, and enjoy the ride!