Hargreaves and Toure absent for City

Roberto Mancini gave the Manchester City team that threw away a two-goal lead at Fulham last week a chance to redeem themselves against Everton this lunchtime.

Despite beating Birmingham in the Carling Cup on Wednesday, Mancini still changed his entire starting line-up, triggering the recalls of Sergio Aguero and Edin Dzeko up front.

As expected, Owen Hargreaves was not even amongst the substitutes and neither was Kolo Toure as City faced an Everton side including veteran Phil Neville.

Man City: Hart, Richards, Kompany, Lescott, Clichy, Nasri, Barry, Toure Yaya, Silva, Dzeko, Aguero. Subs: Pantilimon, Zabaleta, Milner, Kolarov, Savic, Tevez, Balotelli.

Everton: Howard, Hibbert, Jagielka, Distin, Baines, Neville, Fellaini, Rodwell, Osman, Coleman, Cahill. Subs: Mucha, Heitinga, Bilyaletdinov, Saha, Drenthe, Stracqualursi, Vellios.

Referee: Howard Webb (S Yorkshire)