Ole for Edin as late strikes rescue City

West Brom 1 Manchester City 2

Not any more.

Of course, Edin Dzeko’s brace from the bench at The Hawthorns might not belong in the same breath as the infamous turnaround inspired by Teddy Sheringham and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer in City’s great rivals’ 1999 Champions League triumph.

In fact, it will, no question, be forgotten long before Sergio Aguero’s last-gasp strike which sealed City’s first Premier League title back in May.

But, make no mistake, this victory, from a goal down and achieved with 10 men for 67 minutes, was something special.

“The comparisons [with United] will come all the time,” said City’s first team coach David Platt.

“There’s a desire to win football matches. Taking a point means you lose two and you can’t lose too many points when you’re going for a championship. We are on track.”

Let’s not forget this was a trick Dzeko performed in City’s previous away trip at Fulham, when he scored the winner within a minute of coming on as a substitute.

He has, impressively, scored six times in just three starts for City this season.

“I’m there when the team needs me,” Dzeko said. “Even if I only played 10 minutes I was ready to give everything to try and change the score.

“It’s about concentration. When you get 10-15 minutes, you can’t be sad or angry with the coach. You just have to play your game and do your best.”

Yet if Solskjaer, the most renowned super-sub of recent years, performed the role for a decade at Old Trafford with a quiet sense of duty, then those expecting Dzeko to follow suit should think again.

“I scored a lot of goals [for Wolfsburg] before I came to City and not as a sub,” the Bosnian international added. “I have scored in games from the beginning. I am not a super-sub and never will be.”

It had all started so disastrously for City. James Milner, the last man, was dismissed when he sent Shane Long tumbling.

The Baggies made the extra man count when the Tipperary-born striker broke the offside trap to redirect Peter Odemwingie’s low shot into the opposite corner beyond the wrong-footed Joe Hart.

Game over? It looked that way until Dzeko’s arrival.

On the field just a minute, Dzeko rose highest to glance home Carlos Tevez’s free-kick off the back of his head. It was only his second touch and absolutely intentional.

He saved his best for last, however. Aguero led a devastating City counter down the right in added time and crossed for the unmarked Dzeko, who did what super-subs do best to end West Brom’s perfect league home record.

WEST BROM (4-2-3-1): Foster 5; Tamas 6, McAuley 7, Olsson 7, Ridgewell 6; Mulumbu 7, Yacob 7; Morrison 6 (Gera, 72, 5), Dorrans 5 (Odemwingie, 63, 7), Fortune 6; Long 7 (Lukaku, 82, 7)

MAN CITY (4-2-1-3): Hart 6; Richards 7, Kompany 7, Lescott 6, Clichy 7; Barry 7 (Dzeko, 78, 8), Milner 5, Y Toure 7, Tevez 7 (Kolarov, 82), Nasri 7, Balotelli 5 (Aguero, 63, 7)

Referee: Mark Clattenburg.