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When Manchester City welcome Chelsea to the Etihad Stadium on February 17, Pep Guardiola will no doubt field the strongest team available to him despite Mauricio Pochettino's side's struggles this term.
The Saturday evening fixture will see City aiming to take a step closer to retaining their Premier League title, while they will hope to still be in the FA Cup and have one foot in the next round of the Champions League having played the first leg of their round of 16 tie against Copenhagen.
Guardiola has always promised that City will fight on every front and that he does not consider any competition unimportant when compared to the others. That, combined with the fact that Pep has plenty of high-quality players at his disposal, means he rarely makes wholesale changes to his line-ups with future fixtures in mind.
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Guardiola's predecessor at City, Manuel Pellegrini, was of a similar opinion. It was not in the Chilean manager's nature to pick and choose competitions, but in early 2016 there was a moment when he cracked.
In the weeks leading up to City's FA Cup fifth round trip to Chelsea in late February 2016, Pellegrini launched an unexpected and uncharacteristic attack on the powers that be in English football. The topic was fixture scheduling, and it became clear that Pellegrini was not going to get his way.
The fixtures were piling up, and the issue was that the match was moved to Sunday, February 21 for policing and broadcasting reasons. City already had arrangements to fly to Ukraine the following day ahead of a Champions League last-16 first-leg clash with Dynamo Kyiv,
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