Manchester City v Viktoria Plzen: live 38 min Milner slips it through towards Richards down the right, but Kozacik smothered it. That final pass... etc. 37 min Petrzela sends a high looping cross in from the right but Hart deals with it well again. Now the game is stopped as Hubnik took an elbow to the head and needs to go off for treatment. In fact it was his own man Horvath who took him out. 36 min Fernandinho gives it away in his own half and has to be rescued by Javi Garcia, who is able to outmuscle Horava. That's happened for the Brazilian a fair few times so far tonight. 35 min That's probably a little harsh on Plzen, who have created the better chances tonight. They've been very poor at trying to finish them off though, which is probably why they're bottom of the group with just two goals. Incidentally that was Aguero's 16th of the season. Sixteen! He is, as The National once sang, Mr. November. Manchester City 1-0 Viktoria Plzen (Aguero 33) Aguero finds space in the area, turns and chips the cross over towards Dzeko. It hits the defender on the trailing hand and the referee gives the penalty. It's tough on Plzen but fair. Aguero strokes it left, the keeper goes to his left, which is a different left, so he doesn't save it. It went in, is what I'm saying. 31 min Duris misses a sitter! Kolar goes past the diving-in Lescott and Plzen have four against two! It's crossed in from the left and Duris knocks it wide. City go down the other end from the goal kick and... 30 min Plzen probe and City break. Milner cuts inside on to his left foot, off of which his shot is deflected, but low and weak and easily dealt with by Kozacik. 28 min Richards surges down the right and into the box but is challenged well by Hubnik. Richards isn't happy that a goal kick is given, which is odd because by the time Richards took the final touch, the defender was a yard away. 27 min Slightly nervy moment for Hart there as he comes out to claim a long ball down the left and realises his feet were outside the area when he took it. Ooh that was close. Oh and so was this! Petrzela goes diagonally between Kolarov and Fernandinho far, far too easily and puts a shot low and across goal. Tecl was waiting on the six yard box to his left to put that away. 25 min The corner is taken short but the cross is well claimed high up by Hart. He clears it upfield brilliantly for Aguero, who turns Hubnik and fires low into the net! Sadly he pulled his man back there, so the cheers are rightly muted. 24 min Neat offload from Nasri to Aguero who dribbles around three defenders 20 yards out and clips a shot on goal. It's a surprise to see it go wide. Duris then goes down the other end and wins a corner off of Richards. 22 min Fernandinho gives it away in midfield but makes up for it with a great challenge on Hubnik. Milner whips it in from deep on the right-hand touchline, but Dzeko's volley is nowhere near. 21 min Hubnik lofts one in for Kolar, who should bring it down and shoot as the defence remains static. Instead he tries the cute first-time lob and puts it on the roof of Hart's net. 20 min It's end to end stuff here albeit not that great to watch. Tecl is played in down the left but Demichelis is strong enough to squeeze him out. Corner to Plzen though, which Horvath puts straight on to the head of the first man Richards. 18 min Fernandinho looks to slip one through to Nasri but it was just a touch too heavy. Now Milner knocks it inside for Aguero, and as the keeper comes out to claim Milner is penalised for crunching into him and Horvath. Hmm, that looked a bit harsh to me, Milner had every right to go for that. 17 min City have had 61% of possession but the only chance they've had so far really was that 25-yard drive from Nasri. Until now actually as Aguero takes a lovely second touch to feint and shimmy his way down the right of the area. He pulls it back for Nasri but the volley is all wrong and dribbles wide. Should have scored. 16 min Plzen break and have a corner. It's headed clear and Horava knocks it to Kolar. The number 26 tries the spectacular volley, but it ends up somewhere near Stockport. 14 min This is a bit rub... City take a free kick 25 yards out short and Fernandinho offloads nicely to Nasri. The in-form Frenchman takes a couple of touches and launches an absolute rocket from range that nearly disintegrates the crossbar. 13 min City lump it forward towards Aguero, which isn't a bad move with this midfield, but it's very cool defending to shield him off the ball. Plzen now lump it forward and Demichelis intercepts well. 11 min Now it's a chance for Plzen as they attack down the right. They lack the pace despite being two on two though and hold it back. Eventually Hubnik crosses from deep on the left with three men in the middle, but Tecl is offside. 10 min Nice offload from Milner in a central attacking position 25 yards out back to Dzeko, but a poor first touch gives it away. Kolarov knocks it forward again and Milner tries to jink his way down the right of the area. He's blocked though. 8 min City break through Garcia, who has started brightly. Suddenly they're three v two and the Spaniard threads a nice ball through for Dzeko, who demonstrates why Negredo is first choice with a weak shot straight at Kozacik. 7 min Plzen have nothing to lose and are going for this. Kolar shows good strength to get into the box. He can't find a way through and it's worked wide to Duris, but his cross is poor. 6 min Free kick to City 35 yards out for a foul on Nasri. The Frenchman curls it in low and Garcia makes an excellent run to clip it goalwards with the outside of his boot from 10 yards. Not too far wide. 5 min Harsh free kick given against Fernandinho who looked to have outmuscled the two central Plzen midfielders. City on top but Plzen able to clear again. It's worked forward again through a nice overhead pass from Garcia to Dzeko. Cleared and Kolvarov's cross from deep is blocked. 3 min City win the ball in the centre of the Plzen half. Milner looks for the overlapping Richards, who doesn't realise he's supposed to be overlapping. Goal kick to the visitors. Already City, with seven changes, don't look as fluid as they have here in recent weeks. 2 min Free kick to Plzen in a dangerous position as Petrzela surges towards the penalty area only to be dragged back by Kolarov. It'll be taken by Horvath 20 yards out on the right-hand corner of the box. He whips it in but Hart claims despite being fouled. 1 min 03 secs City still haven't scored. 1 min Here we go then. City stroke it around at the back, largely off the side of my cropped screen. After 30 seconds Nasri gives it away on the halfway line but Plzen can't control it and it rolls out for a throw. The players are looking very solemn for the Champions League anthem. It really does sound ridiculously overblown, doesn't it? Like if Sigur Ros covered Meatloaf. Shay Given is in the Sky Sports studio. No sign yet of how he feels about watching Joe Hart under pressure in the City goal, but we know, don't we? Ten minutes or so to go then. City are lining up in their now-familiar 4-2-2-2 formation, although you'd doubt Javi Garcia and James Milner will be making quite such attacking forages as the men they replace, Yaya Toure and Jesus Navas. Dzeko too is unlikely to fall back as often as Negredo did at the weekend, so expect to see a deeper starting position for the wonderful Aguero. Speaking of whom, is there any better striker in world football now? Zlatan aside, obviously. It's a similar-ish formation for Plzen, who will be more of a 4-2-2-1-1, with number 10 Horvath playing in a deep-lying central midfield role and number 26 Kolar confusingly in the number 10 role behind striker Tecl. In Moscow, Munich have now beaten CSKA 3-1 to go six points clear of City at the top. Arjen Robben and Mario Goetze put Munich 2-0 up before the wonderful Keisuke Honda converted a penalty to pull one back for the home side. Thomas Mueller then converted a spot kick of his own to round off a straighforward win as expected. "Who would aspire to be an umpire?" asked The Duckworth Lewis Method on their album earlier this year. And who would be a referee? The answer to the latter question, tonight at least, is Firat Aydinus of Turkey. So it's not exactly the strongest team for City, but who'd be surprised at that for a game against the group whipping boys, sandwiched in between Premier League fixtures against Spurs and Swansea? Anyone got any ideas on how they could possibly stuff this up? Apart from the old commentator's curse thing, which I swear I'm not trying to invoke. Trying to upset the apple cart tonight are... Viktoria Plzen: Kozáčik, Rajtoral, Procházka, Čišovský, Limberský, Hořava, Horváth, Petržela, Kolář, Ďuriš, Tecl Subs: Bolek, Hejda, Reznik, Wagner, Kovarik, Bakos, Pospisil. Buh! Man City have told us who's playing for them tonight. You will be watching... Man City: Hart, Richards, Lescott, Demichelis, Kolarov, Milner, Nasri, Javi García, Fernandinho, Dzeko, Agüero Subs: Pantilimon, Zabaleta, Boyata, Navas, Yaya Toure, Huws, Negredo. Kick off is an hour away, or less if you're reading this later than I typed it. We'll have all the build up to that 19.45 start and team news as it comes in. In the mean time feel free to get in touch either by Twitter or email. I'll let you know if anything interesting happens in the mean time. If it doesn't I'll just pop in now and then to make jokes about Joe Hart, yeah? Do we have team news? Er, no, not yet. What we do know though is that Manuel Pellegrini is ignoring all the hype of my preamble and will give Curb Your Enthusiasm's Joe Hart a start in an ostensibly easier, unimportant game. Actually that's a bit unfair as Hart was impressive for England in his last competitive game, the 2-0 defeat to Germany, and another decent performance here could go a fair way to improving his standing in his club manager's eye. Against a team that's only managed two goals in their four matches to date though, he'll probably be hoping that City's defence continues its comic form in order to give him something to do. Hullo all, and welcome to our minute-by-minute coverage of Manchester City's penultimate match of this 2013-14 Champions League group stage against Europe's leading vowel-eschewers (that I can think of off the top of my head) Viktoria Plzen. Passage to the next round is, of course, already assured for Manuel Pellegrini's men, but there is still the slimmest mathematical chance that they could top the group over Pep Guardiola's apparent-champions elect Bayern Munich. To do so they'd have to overturn an eight-goal disadvantage over the next two games as things stand, with Munich leading 3-1 in Moscow at the time of writing. Whilst this may sound too tall an ask for most teams, most of us City fans won't need reminding that the last four games at the Etihad have seen them score three, five, seven and six respectively. Then again this is the Champions League, and there's a reason a team as hapless as Spurs were on Saturday aren't in it. Still, even if Munich are out of reach, this looks like a hopeless mismatch on paper and Eastlands has become as welcoming for visiting teams this season as The Waca circa 1974 or Sabina Park 1982. Pellegrini will be looking for his side to continue their thrilling home form. I therefore absolutely guarantee* that if you stick with me rather than Daniel Harris's MBM of Bayer Leverkusen v Manchester United we will have an absolute shedload of goals. Not a guarantee. Neither your MBMer nor The Daily Telegraph are responsible for the inevitable disappointing 1-1 draw.