Manchester City 2-0 Chelsea: Yaya Toure & Tevez on target as hosts close gap on leaders United via goal.com

Two excellent second-half goals helped Roberto Mancini's team to pull clear in second place in the Premier League after Joe Hart had brilliantly saved Frank Lampard's penalty

                                                Yaya Toure (left) and Tevez( Right)

Roberto Mancini's public attack on his players paid immediate dividends as Manchester Citybrushed Chelsea aside 2-0 at the Etihad Stadium.

The champions' dominant display was rewarded with second-half goals of real quality from Yaya Toure and substitute Carlos Tevez. The Ivorian's 63rd-minute opener came shortly after Joe Hart had atoned for clumsily conceding a penalty by launching himself to his right to keep out Frank Lampard's spot kick.

The Argentine sealed the win five minutes from time to help City pull clear of Chelsea in second place and reduce Manchester United's lead at the top back down to 12 points.
Such is the dominance of the runaway leaders that the main fight is for the minor places but Mancini's men demonstrated that they are not a completely diminished force by overwhelming their main rivals for the runners-up spot.
City have fallen short in the goalscoring department this season and, after criticising a number of his players in an interview earlier in the week, the Italian's solution was to spearhead Sergio Aguero with David Silva and a battery of midfielders. Toure, James Milner and Javi Garcia were supplemented by Jack Rodwell, starting his first match since the 3-1 home win over QPR on September 1.
Chelsea, starting just 64 hours after their draw in Prague on Thursday night, rung the changes, with Demba Ba returning to the side in place of Fernando Torres.
The visitors looked jaded in the first half as City poured forward in droves and at times threatened to tear them apart.
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