Man City v Cardiff City Jan 2014

Yet another home win and City passed their 100th goal of the season and their 900th in Premier League history. Edin Dzeko was the man who notched goal number 100 and it was also the first time goal line technology had been brought into play when the ball was cleared from behind the line. Yaya Toure, Navas and Aguero scored the other goals but for once Negredo failed to score. Cardiff played quite well so when they equalized memories came back from the away game. However Navas soon put City in front again . Hart had to make some good saves in the second half but they did manage a consolation goal in additional time. City did miss some good chances and had most of the possession. There was a return for Craig Bellamy who got a warm reception from City fans when he came on as a sub. Another Craig - Noone looked very dangerous and looked their best player. Cardiff brought a lot of support but they let themselves down a bit when fighting broke out in their section and the Police had to go in to help stewards.

Marshall saves from Dzeko on 8 minutes

Toure has a disagreement with the referee

City made a number of changes from the Cup replay but Fernandinho remained on the bench Garcia taking his place

30 coaches brought quite a few Cardiff supporters who were mainly sporting their old blue colors

Perhaps the Cardiff players were checking whether there was any good luck rice on the pitch!

No sign of Mr Tan in the directors box

City should have had a penalty in the first minutes when Dzeko was brought down

Then Navas has a shot saved ... Cardiff escape

Toure clears a Cardiff corner

two minutes later and a cross is almost deflected in by a defender but Marshall saves

On 13 minutes came the moment we had been waiting for. Silva passed to Dzeko who shot......

The ball seemed to take ages to go towards goal and in dashed a defender to clear

Dzeko appealed and Negredo looked anxiously towards the linesman...

..but the referee had received the signal that the ball had cross the line and Dzeko was able to celebrate

While the City players celebrated the Cardiff players protested that Silva had handled in the play prior to the goal

When play was interrupted by an injury to Gunnarsson fighting broke out in the visitors lower tier section

This continued for several minutes until order was restored

Marshall saves from Dzeko

On 23 minutes a shot from Negredo just goes wide

Then on 29 minutes just as I'm taking a panorama with my new smart phone Cardiff score !

As you can see from this crop from the pan the Cardiff players are celebrating

The Cardiff fans too have something to celebrate

Within a few minutes City are back in front when Dzeko passes to Navas and he makes no mistake to make it 2-1

Navas celebrates his 4th league goal of the season

City continue to press but the score remains at 2-1 at half time

City legend Goater is interviewed during the break

Hart saves from Mutch

City have to defend again at the corner

Hart in action again at a Cardiff corner

Negredo gets a knock near the touchline

A shot by Siva on 60 minutes goes just wide

Aguero comes on for Negredo - will he score with his second touch again!

Hart saves from Noone

Hart fails to punch away the corner

Bellamy comes on a sub and says hi to Kolarov!

Silva tries to block a cross from Noone

On 75 minutes Yaya Toure goes on one of his runs....

...and ends up shooting past Marshall to give City a 3-1 lead

After all that effort he needs a bit of a rest and has to accept thanks lying down!

Two minutes later Aguero gets a pass from Toure and goes this way then that way and finally crashes the ball past Marshall to make it 4-1 - Magnificent!

Looks like game over

Both young and old City fans enjoyed that one

City nearly add a fifth

City nearly score again as time approached

Hart saves at a corner

Hart has to push aside a shot by Noone

Cardiff score from a corner - Campbell having an easy task

Just before time Aguero just fails to score