City come from behind against Bolton

Watching the City-Bolton goal-fest exhausted me during the early hours of this morning. City are certainly proving to pull out some exhilarating results this season, while playing at home.

It's quite late, so my thoughts may not be coherent. Please let me know if I confuse you.

It was good to see Bianchi score in the first five minutes or so, but disheartening to see him out of position because of his lack of willingness to recover from the previous play. My favorite part of that play was Johnson's centering pass to Bianchi. As he received the centering ball from Vassell, Johnson gave the sweetest square touch to the onrushing Bianchi who slid the ball past the Bolton keeper, Jaaskelainen.

Neither the City or the Bolton defense looked incredibly strong. Attackers from both sides looked to have large green pastures of uncontested space to blaze through on their way to goal.

The two goals that Bolton scored illustrated the acres of space that were given to Diouf and Nolan. Leading up to Diouf's first goal this season Bolton sliced through a stagnant City defense, traveling two-thirds the length of the field without any serious challenge.

Nolan had a great strike, but anyone should at that level, given that amount of time.

When Hamann forced the Bolton defender, Michalik, to knock the ball in to bring City level just after half-time, I was hopefully optimistic. That optimism spilled over in the 76th minute with Vassell sweeping in Petrov's perfect cross. On this play, I initially thought Petrov shut down by his defender, but his cutting cross was enough to let Vassell pull a Del Piero-esq backheel through the legs for a nifty goal.

Having the 19 year-old Etuhu put the game on ice in the 90th with his first game in a Manchester City shirt was a perfect ending to an intensely paced contest. In the end it looked as though the pace got to the visitors as Bolton simply ran out of gas.

Above all I was happy to see the boys come together and fight for the come back and actually pull it off for the win. Let's keep it up City!