This witch hunt on Balotelli is ridiculous. He's falling and trying to find the ground. The amount of information he'd need to process to choose to stomp on Parker there (who probably would have deserved it, btw, with the way he was fouling today) is absolutely asounding. He's falling, trying to stay on his feet, spinning, and looking away...and he's also simultaneously deciding to blind stomp on the other player? It's just media driven controversy and it's despicable in this instance.
I really don't think Lescott's elbow is intentional, either. Again, you've got players in motion not even looking at each other and you're deciding he's choosing to make a subtle play at an opponent in a blind manner. It's just too much to assume intent at that point.
I don't think i've ever been so angry after a victory. Savic shouldn't even be playing due to an awful decision against Kompany. It almost cost us 2 cups and a league game in the space of 2 weeks. We're obviously in dire need of a competent CB, as tottenham just wrote the book on how to steal a goal or two from us by throwing long balls at Savic and waiting for him to screw them up. A complete nightmare from him today.
Dzeko also was complete shit today, he had the kind of game people have been accusing him (wrongly) of having all season. Completely wasteful in possession, the best thing you can say about him is that he kept showing, but he couldn't pull off anything today.