I feel like playing the 5-3-2 wouldn't really be playing to our strengths. It's not like center back is our strongest and/or deepest position. We have a bunch of great midfielders and strikers, and that formation would just alienate one more of them. I think Mancini is only developing that for Carling Cup kind of stuff to allow more players to be rested those days. It's hard to read Mancini, though. Heh. Anyway..
Hart
Kompany
Lescott
Clichy
Zabaleta
De Jong
Milner
Nasri (F)
Toure
Tevez
Aguero (L)
Bench: Pantilimon, Kolarov, Silva, Balotelli, Dzeko, Johnson, Kolo
City 2-1
Hart
Kompany
Lescott
Clichy
Zabaleta
De Jong
Milner
Nasri (F)
Toure
Tevez
Aguero (L)
Bench: Pantilimon, Kolarov, Silva, Balotelli, Dzeko, Johnson, Kolo
City 2-1