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. 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.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."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."We managed to ride the storm, score three good goals, and hung on at the end."The best is to come but it's the sign of a good team when they can win and not play the best football."Hopefully we can keep improving as a team, keep moving forward and hopefully you'll see the best of us soon."Fellow England international Gareth Barry reserved special praise for two-goal hero Tevez."He's carried on from last season," said Barry. "He's a world-class striker."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."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."But we stayed strong and we knew we'd get them on the counter-attack. We scored three good goals."Reflecting on City's solid opening to the campaign, Barry added: "It's a fantastic start."It's still early doors with some tough games coming up, but if we can keep this run going the confidence will keep growing."City boss Roberto Mancini was happy to win ugly at the expense of a typically robust Blackpool side."Sometimes it is important to win like we did today," he told Sky Sports."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."Blackpool manager Ian Holloway felt referee Phil Dowd got "three massive decisions wrong", contributing to his side's defeat.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."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."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."We're getting absolutely bo diddly squat, week in, week out. But there you go, such is life."

Source: Team_Talk