City move up to third in the Barclays Premier League table

Manchester City 3 Liverpool 1

Manchester City striker Stevan Jovetic ensured former club favourite Mario Balotelli’s return to England was relegated to a sideshow as the Barclays Premier League champions ruthlessly brushed aside the team who ran them so close last season.

While all the pre-match talk was of Liverpool’s new £16million striker - watching from the directors’ box just hours after finalising his move from AC Milan – it was another forward who had previously made the move from Italy who took centre-stage.