Manchester city 2 - 0 Everton
Bolatelli 68'
Milner 89'
Everton visited Eithaad stadium on the backdrop of a victory over West Brom and Wigan. With strikers like Cahill they were looking to bother the Manchester city's well built defense spearheaded by the likes of Komapny. On the other hand Manchester City was quite confident despite thier recent draw against Fulham where they lost the two goal lead and only managed to get a point. Roberto Mancini's men were all prepared to do business and outclass David Moyes side.
The game began in a slow mode and nothing interesting happened except for few shots from Manchester City and Some good saves form Tim Howard, the Everton goalkeeper.Dzeko and Aguerro looked good but overall the performance was a lazy one from the whole team seemed like they were tired except from some quality passes from Silva. Baines was the man for visitors providing them with regular balls in the box but they were never really a threat to a well balanced Manchester City side.
As the game kicked off after half time Manchester city looked more determined though the game play was still lazy Everton defenders seem tired so was the crowd in the stands. The game really took a turn when Dzeko was replaced by young Italian Bolatelli who came in to spur up Manchester city's performance and kill any hopes that Everton had to steal a point away form the Eithaad stadium.
He came in to score and made the score line 1-0 at when the clocked ticked to 68th minute.
later Milner showed the quality he posses and ensured that Manchester City gets 3 points from the game. when he score on 89th minute to make it 2-0
the game ended Manchester city 2 - 0 Everton
Manchester City goes top of the table until Manchester United plays in the late kickoff.