City’s opener in the Premier League.
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00:00 And just on City's opener, obviously starting the season before anyone else, away at Burnley,
00:05 a bit of a fairy tale for Vincent Kompany's involvement there as well.
00:09 What can you see going into this game?
00:10 Because, you know, it does have that opening night sort of hype around it,
00:15 but if it was midway through the season, you'd expect City to just get the job done and go home with three points.
00:21 Yeah, there's certainly be a lot of hype around the game.
00:23 I think there'll be a great atmosphere at Turf Moor and I think they will really get behind Kompany,
00:28 obviously the fans, and they'll get behind Kompany and they'll get behind the team,
00:31 and it will make it really difficult for City.
00:33 You're always better playing City at the start of the season than the end of the season in my eyes.
00:37 I just think they're not quite at their optimum level in the opening couple of weeks.
00:41 I think they'll hope to try and take advantage of that, but look, you know,
00:46 you and I are going to talk about this a lot over the next nine months.
00:49 It's very difficult to ever not expect City to go into a game and win it.
00:53 I do think there's a slight chance of an upset in this one, but you're just always back City against a team like Burnley,
01:00 who I think will be interesting this season.
01:01 Burnley obviously did really well under Kompany last year,
01:04 but what's it going to be like suddenly going into the underdog's games where they're not going to dominate possession?
01:08 That's, you know, it's going to be a completely different kettle of fish really for Burnley and Kompany this season.
01:12 So yeah, we'll see, but you've got to make City very heavy favourites for every single game they go into,
01:18 and I do think they'll get three points on Friday night.