City Blitz Silences Wolves and Mancini's Men Book Their Place In The Last Eight With Five Star Show.
Three goals in the space of four minutes helped Manchester City sweep aside Wolves 5-2 and book their place in the Carling Cup quarter-finals and the hosts took a deserved lead early on at Molineux through Nenad Milijas were caught napping towards the end of the first half as Adam Johnson, Samir Nasri and Edin Dzeko all found the target.
An own goal from Dorus de Vries and another from Dzeko had City out of sight after the interval to meaning an effort from Wolves substitute Jamie O'Hara counted for little things had started so well for Mick McCarthy's side, with the home support doing their utmost to get behind their team following a weekend of discontent and they took the lead with 18 minutes on the clock, with Milijas pouncing to lash home a loose ball following some uncharacteristically sloppy defending by City.
Roberto Mancini's men proved in Sunday's 6-1 demolition of Manchester United that they know the way to goal and responded slick three-goal blitz as half-time approached and the 1st Johnson swept past De Vries on 37 minutes and moments later they were ahead as Nasri was sprung clear and rolled the ball into the bottom corner.
Johnson was causing havoc at this stage and he played a part in City's 3rd with Dzeko hammering into the roof of the net after De Vries could only block a close-range effort from Luca Scapuzzi back into play was four for the visitors five minutes after the interval as Scapuzzi's bundled effort was hacked clear off the line and ricocheted back over it off De Vries.
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