City Still Doesn't Know

As a member of the Manchester City experts, how can you not know that you have to bring your best game to defeat Everton?

The season before the one City won, their title hopes were dashed, again at the Stadium of Light, by Everton. They beat Man. City, on that day (- 20 December 2010 -), 2-1, with 2 goals scored in the first 19 minutes, and effectively took Mancini's team out of real contention.
(Everton's previous and next result, flanking that famous win, were 0-0 at home against Wigan and 1-1 at home against West Ham. One can easily see, therefore, that Everton really gave its best to trouble Man. City. And it doesn't take a genius to see that it was all for the benefit of Man. U. But that's another story.)

If Mancini is a somewhat smart individual, he should have known that it would be just as tough to defeat Everton as it would probably be to defeat Man. U. (if the referee does not throw some blatant help to Man. U., like mark clattenburg did in the match Chelsea - Man. u., in which case beating United might be slightly harder).
Maybe he did know that, but the players certainly did not act as if they knew.

Even though they scored the equalizer relatively quickly, they were just not incisive enough to prevent an Everton team playing very good football from stopping the EPL champions from getting the win.

So, these were two huge dropped points by City.

And I'm sure Everton and Manchester United people were both celebrating. Maybe some of them even together.

But, getting back to yet another title contender not named Man. U. faltering in December, what else is new? Such title contenders are now notorious for shooting themselves in the foot, hard, come holiday time.
It's a great time to be a manchester United fan, isn't it? It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...