Source: Team_Talk
Milner fires warning to Prem rivals
James Milner helped Manchester City close the gap on Chelsea at Blackpool then warned the Premier League the Blues will get even better.[LNB] Carlos Tevez scored a brace as City climbed to second place with a 3-2 win at Bloomfield Road, a result which extends their unbeaten run to five games.[LNB]City were pushed all the way by a spirited Blackpool side who found the target through Marlon Harewood and Gary Taylor-Fletcher, but David Silva's sublime third for City proved the difference.[LNB]"They put us under a lot pressure, which we knew they would. They've got a good home support behind them and they're a good team that play it around really well," Milner told Sky Sports.[LNB]"We managed to ride the storm, score three good goals, and hung on at the end.[LNB]"The best is to come but it's the sign of a good team when they can win and not play the best football.[LNB]"Hopefully we can keep improving as a team, keep moving forward and hopefully you'll see the best of us soon."[LNB]Fellow England international Gareth Barry reserved special praise for two-goal hero Tevez.[LNB]"He's carried on from last season," said Barry. "He's a world-class striker.[LNB]"Last season he got 20-odd goals and I'm sure he can do that again. If he does we'll be right up there come the end of the season."[LNB]He added: "We got exactly what we expected - a good Blackpool team that's surprised a few teams already. We knew it was going to be a tough game.[LNB]"But we stayed strong and we knew we'd get them on the counter-attack. We scored three good goals."[LNB]Reflecting on City's solid opening to the campaign, Barry added: "It's a fantastic start.[LNB]"It's still early doors with some tough games coming up, but if we can keep this run going the confidence will keep growing."[LNB]City boss Roberto Mancini was happy to win ugly at the expense of a typically robust Blackpool side.[LNB]"Sometimes it is important to win like we did today," he told Sky Sports.[LNB]"Today we didn't play well. It was important at the end that we scored three goals. It is not easy to score three goals away from home."[LNB]Blackpool manager Ian Holloway felt referee Phil Dowd got "three massive decisions wrong", contributing to his side's defeat.[LNB]Holloway felt Tevez was offside for his first goal and that a foul had been committed against one of his players in the build-up to the Argentinian's second, while the Blackpool boss felt aggrieved at a disallowed Taylor-Fletcher effort in the second period.[LNB]"They've got to get those right. Three goals. Our goal, Elliot Grandin was offside but it went to Taylor-Fletcher and he scored. Their [first] goal, Tevez was offside with a backheel and the second one was a foul on my defender, absolutely blatant. I just saw all that on the telly. Heartbreaking.[LNB]"He's got three massive decisions wrong, which cost my team against one of the so-called big teams. For me, we could have been one point behind them if things had gone our way, as they clearly should have done.[LNB]"We're getting absolutely bo diddly squat, week in, week out. But there you go, such is life."
