Yet at the centre of it all was Yaya Toure. This fella is a colossus, two Patrick Vieiras rolled into one. He's known variously as The Beast or The Tank and neither sells him short.
He eats up the pitch with the sort of stride Usain Bolt wouldn't mind calling his own - one 60-yard run saw him go past three defenders before his cross into the middle almost laid on City's third for Tevez. He's 6ft 3in and 14st, looks even bigger and must spend most of his £220,000-a-week on food.