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The Premier League returns this weekend - for its first properly undisrupted run of the season.

A bad run of form, doubt over some senior players' futures, changes behind the scenes and facing the Premier League's 115 charges for alleged breaches of financial rules, mean Guardiola and Manchester City have a huge few months ahead.

City sit second in this season's Premier League, five points behind leaders Liverpool, and are on a run of four successive defeats across all competitions.

Scotland are now chasing away the desperate fatalism that gripped the nation after that loss to Hungary and during the epic run of one win in 16 games, but there's a lot left to be done.

Those three wins came in a run of four races.