Pep Guardiola's first game in charge of Manchester City ended in a 1-0 defeat at the home of former side Bayern Munich this evening.
The Spaniard used his maiden match as Citizens boss to run the rule over a string of younger players in his squad, but the visitors created minimal chances across the 90 minutes.
Erdal Ozturk scored the game's only goal 76 minutes in, sending an effort from the edge of the box past substitute keeper Angus Gunn with the aid of a deflection to earn his side victory in their second run-out of the summer.
Guardiola named a largely inexperienced side for his first outing, with Aleksandar Kolarov, Fernandinho and Fernando providing the only real experience in the starting lineup.
Despite the relative gulf in quality, City made a bright enough start to the match as they held off their opponents and looked to get forward as and when they could.
Bayern's quality began to show, though, as some fine link-up play between Franck Ribery and David Alaba inside the area led to the former pulling the ball back to his teammate just seven yards out.
Alaba sent the ball down the middle which allowed Willy Caballero to keep his side on level terms, but tougher tests were to come for the Argentine before the first half was out.
Julian Green was played clean through on the half-hour mark only to, like his teammate before him, fire the ball into a fairly central position for Caballero to help it aside.
The third and final Caballero save of the opening 45 minutes came soon after, this time when Ribery got to the byline and picked out Green to face a familiar story as he was denied in an inspired display from the back-up keeper.
City's only attempt of the half was via the boot of Kelechi Iheanacho, but his shot-to-nothing did little to worry Sven Ulreich who simply watched the ball sail onto the roof of his net.
Guardiola brought on further experience for the second half by introducing Gael Clichy, Fabian Delph and Wilfried Bony, while hero of the first half Caballero was replaced by youngster Gunn in goal.
It was Bony who got away the first shot following the restart - a well-taken strike from distance which Ulreich got behind even though the ball appeared to be trickling wide of the target.
A better chance was to fall the way of Fernandinho, who got his angles all wrong when hitting the ball high over the bar after being found by Bony's headed flick-on.
Gunn's first piece of action arrived 55 minutes in after youngster Daniel Hagler, on for Ribery at the break, blasted an effort low and hard down the middle.
Bayern did eventually make the breakthrough midway through the half, but only after Bony sent one diving header narrowly wide moments before a poor first touch denied him a clear run through on goal.
Ozturk would prove to be the decisive player on the night, with his deflected effort coming off Clichy and getting the better of Gunn between the sticks to send the Premier League outfit to defeat.
Daniel Lewis
