Mancini set to shuffle his pack

Roberto Mancini is preparing to make changes for Manchester City’s Premier League encounter with Birmingham tomorrow.

With such great depth to his squad, the City chief is keen to use it as the Blues tackle their third game in a week, having collected four points from their meetings with West Brom and Manchester United.

Mario Balotelli serves the second game of a three-match ban but Adam Johnson and Emmanuel Adebayor are amongst those who will hope for a recall.

Team (from): Hart, Richards, Zabaleta, Bridge, Lescott, Boyata, De Jong, Vieira, Barry, Johnson, K Toure, Y Toure, Tevez, Silva, Adebayor, Kolarov, Given, Milner, Kompany, Boateng.