Nobby Stiles is recognised before kick-off. An England great and World Cup winner, who sadly died this week.

Mark Lawrenson
BBC Football Expert

Manchester City got a good win in the Champions League in France on Tuesday but Marseille were not up to much.

This will be a bigger test. Sheffield United are still without a win in 2020-21 but they created lots of chances at Anfield in their defeat by Liverpool last time out.

That was arguably the Blades' best performance of the season so far. I think they will be pretty direct again here, and they can cause City problems.

Ruben Dias has looked pretty solid in the City defence since he arrived at the end of last month but this will be a decent test for him.

Prediction: 0-2

The team are out. Kick-off imminent.

Karen Carney
Former England and Chelsea winger on BBC Radio 5 Live

If I was Phil Foden I'd be a little bit aggrieved - but that's the luxury Pep Guardiola has got, so many fantastic players he can play. He might feel that Foden will be physically out-dominated by a Sheffield United team who'll get in your face. For me, Foden would be in their best elevn, but I'm not Pep Guardiola...

Alan Shearer
Former England striker on BBC Radio 5 Live

As impressive as Sheffield United were last season, they did struggle to put the ball in the back of the net, which is why they've gone out and spent big [on Rhian Brewster]. They were brilliant, a breath of fresh air with the football they played - they weren't intimidated, they weren't scared, but they've got to find the balance between being solid at the back and putting the ball in the back of the net.

It's a huge gamble to pay that much money for Brewster, but it's a big ask for him to come in with so much resting on his shoulders. I probably wouldn't score goals in this Sheffield United side.

Late change on the City bench...

Dan Fookes: Ronnie Wallwork becoming the next Jaap Stam.

Look away now, Sheffield United, Burnley and Fulham fans.

Only four clubs have ever avoided relegation after picking up one point or fewer after seven games in the Premier League.

Crystal Palace had no points after seven games in 2017-18, while Southampton (in 1998-99), Newcastle (in 1999-2000) and Sunderland (in 2013-14) each had one.

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Sheffield United

It should be a special day for Kyle Walker with the Manchester City defender set to make his 100th Premier League appearance for the club against the team he supports.

"I love them to get wins but not today," he told BT Sport.

"It will be tough today as I know as I watch them more than frequently."

On Pep Guardiola's recent comments that he is in his best form: "I feel good. I feel stronger than ever and ready to go again."

Nitin Kamath: Why don't Manchester City play someone from the academy as a striker during the injury crisis? That's how we unearthed a certain Marcus Rashford.

Simon Buckley: Today’s teams have a cost of €100m v €650m. One of the biggest mismatches in Premiership history?

It almost happened. No, seriously. The story goes that then Blades boss Harry Haslam went out to scout a then 17-year-old Diego in the late 1970s and was so impressed he set up a £200,000 deal with Argentinos Juniors. However, it fell through because United apparently wouldn't pay extra on top. They signed Alex Sabella instead.

Hard to think what Maradona would have made of south Yorkshire? Not sure he'd have been quite as carefree in his warm-up when the sleet is lashing into face.

Nothing quite captures the brilliant, free spirit of Maradona like this clip of him warming up before a game for Napoli, though...

Speaking of birthday's, Diego Maradona was 60 yesterday.

Guillem Balague has written a tribute to the footballing genius on the site, which you can read here.

And here is a video of his best goals for Argentina... *

*May contain a handball.

It it Marcus Rashford's 23rd birthday today. He's had a hell of a year...

Richard Byrne: Mark Collis, the CM designer, put himself in the Cambridge United first team. Of course, he was Messiesque. Always my first signing.

The self-righteous one: The buzz of CM97-98 excitement following the new season refresh when you search and have it verified that Rudi Voller has indeed retired.

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We've already had one game of round six, with Wolves moving up to sixth courtesy of a pretty comfortable 2-0 win over Crystal Palace.

France Under-21 left-back Rayan Ait-Nouri, who is on a season-long loan from Ligue 1 side Angers, scored on his debut to help Wanderers to victory. Portuguese winger Daniel Podence grabbed the second, with Palace's Luka Milivojevic was shown a red card for a tackle on Joao Moutinho in the closing stages.

You can read all about it here.

To more sombre news and yesterday saw the death of another of England's victorious 1966 World Cup side as Nobby Stiles passed away at the age of 78.

The former Manchester United player had prostate cancer and advanced dementia.

Stiles is the seventh member of the England team that started the 1966 World Cup final against West Germany to die, after captain Bobby Moore, Alan Ball, Ray Wilson, Gordon Banks, Martin Peters and Jack Charlton.

You can read more about Stiles' passing here, and also a lot more about his wonderful career here.

BBC Radio 5 Live's Football Daily podcast also paid tribute to him, which you can listen to here.

Sean Dundee very much from the Bakayoko school of players who fell well short of their CM class in reality.

Manchester City's total of eight points from five games is their lowest at this stage of a season since 2014-15.

It's Pep Guardiola's worst start as a manager after five league games of a season, while the fewest points his sides have earned after six league fixtures is 13.

City have conceded as many as eight league goals after five matches for the first time since 2006-07 - and they could fail to score more than once in four successive Premier League games for the first time under Guardiola.