Man City coach Wilkinson confident they're up for U18 Premier League Cup final against Man Utd

Manchester City coach Ben Wilkinson says they're confident facing Manchester United in today's U18 Premier League Cup final.

City will face United after defeating Bristol City in the semifinal.

It's been nice to have a little bit more of a settled group this week with less midweek games and that's given us a little bit more time to prepare on the grass which is exciting," said Wilkinson to City's website.

It's a really good Under-18s fixture, playing in a final against United. It's a top fixture so we're really looking forward to the game and I'm hoping the lads can go and show the best versions of themselves in terms of their performance.

Bristol had a really unique style that having watched them, I was impressed with. It was a stop-start game in the first half but I thought after half-time we had a lot more control of the ball and we were able to sustain attacks and tactically we were better in terms of positions we were holding on the pitch, the game looked more like what we would have wanted to.

I think towards the end of the game I was confident that we would win because we were doing the right things repeatedly and I felt that if we kept doing that, normally, you go on and win the game.

But United will be a different game, a different proposition. We've played them twice and I think they have quite a settled playing style which, from my point of view, allows us to be a bit more consistent in terms of preparing for the game.

Last time we played them we prepared the game really well in terms of what we needed to do to change the game from when we lost 1-0 and we did that and it will be the case of looking at this game in the same light."