It's no secret that Manchester City's pre-season trip to China got off on the wrong foot, with the club's arrival into the country delayed by two days due to an administrative error which left them grounded on home soil.
They touched down in Shanghai just a day before their opening Premier League Asia Trophy game against West Ham. The squad and manager Pep Guardiola then took a bullet train from Shanghai into Nanjing on Wednesday, having trained earlier in the day.
So it will have been a frantic couple of days for Pep and his players as they got to grips with sleep schedules in a distant time zone, not to mention the stifling humidity in both Shanghai and Nanjing.