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Man City 1 Hull 1: Samir Nasri picked through the wreckage of a season that is rapidly spiralling out of control for Manuel Pellegrini and Manchester City with a stark warning for his under-achieving team mates.

Twelve months ago, in Pellegrini’s debut Premier League season, City endured some difficult moments on a par with this latest home setback but ultimately captured the league title, an outcome that had as much to do with Liverpool’s late-season collapse as it did City’s dogged persistence.

This term, it is Jose Mourinho’s Chelsea who are playing the front running role and Nasri does not expect them to fold as spectacularly as Liverpool did. On the contrary, as City search for their first league win since New Year’s Day at Stoke on Wednesday, Nasri admits he is now looking over his shoulder at a chasing pack of Southampton, Manchester United and Spurs that could even pip the defending champions to second place.