Having been overlooked for the vacant Arsenal position before the season, Mikel Arteta will get the chance to stand in for Pep Guardiola in Manchester City's Champions League opener. City face Lyon at the Etihad Stadium on Wednesday but they will do so without their talismanic manager, who is serving a suspension following his sending off in the quarter-final second-leg defeat at the hands of Liverpool last April. Arteta faced the media on Tuesday and fielded questions on his own managerial ambitions, as well as City's plans for coping without the influence of their figurehead in the dugout. Having spent five years at Arsenal as a player, Arteta was widely thought to be a candidate to...
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