Toure: we can build title tilt on defence

KOLO TOURE maintains that Manchester City can build their title challenge on defensive performances like the one which frustrated Barclays Premier League rivals Arsenal.

Big-spending City — whose appeal against the decision to send off Pablo Zabaleta following his bust-up with Arsenal defender Bacary Sagna late on will be heard today — were lambasted for a lack of ambition at the Emirates Stadium on Wednesday night, where they failed to muster a shot on target.

City boss Roberto Mancini, who was without forward duo David Silva and Mario Balotelli because of injury, maintained he had no issue with the chants of “boring” directed at his team by sections of the home crowd.