Team News - For those watching on the tv

Hart

Boateng
Lescott
Kompany
Kolorov

Silva
Barry
Toure

Balotelli
Dzeko
Tevez

Evening blueboy. Worked well, not sure the midfield will stand up to better teams though...

Have to say Meltonblue.....looked good for 25 minutes, then suddenly we reverted back to type.

Positives though - Dzeko and Balotelli get another 90 minutes.

Thought Tevez had another of those nights tonight - nothing he did came off.

Balotelli - the only positive was he didn't get sent off! The lad looks like he doesn't give a fuck.

Dzeko - 2 fantastic goals and should have slotted his chance away in the first half for his hat-rick.

What bothers me are two things:

Kolorov - he brings nothing to our game, defensively or offensively. His dead ball efforts from corners and free kicks are awful. He is slow, gives away silly free kicks and cannot cross a ball. Apart from that great free kick the other week - he for me is not up to PL stratch. Just my opinion.

The second worrying thing is our subs.

Tonight we played with all 3 up front. When it came to subs, it was Viera and SWP. Not the strongest with whats to come over the next 2 months.

Overall, good result - average performance.

Mancini needs to make sure we change things up quicker in a match. Tonight, we could have brought SWP on earlier, rather than with 10 mins to go.

Our strongest on paper would be:

Hart

Richards
Kompany
Toure
Lescott

Yaya
DeJong
Silva

Johnson
Dzeko
Tevez

Balotelli needs more games, but with Johnson out, he may take his place until the end of the season in this formation.