MAN CITY 6 QPR 0
Class from City. Aguero with the ball in, outside of the foot. Bony with a cheeky back heel! Lovely stuff. Silva is onto it, and he has danced around the keeper to score the goal that his performance deserves. MAN CITY 6 QPR 0 (Silva 86)
84 mins
Bit more City casual play at the back, but you could hardly blame them for treating QPR and the match situation lightly. Sooner this is over for QPR the better.
81 mins
Silva with yet another defence-opening ball, although to be fair this defence is about as easy to crack as a Kinder Egg. Bony with a fantastic low snap shot! Hits the base of the post, he did wonderfully well to even hit the target from the angle. City cannot do a lot with the follow-up. They make their final change as James Milner, who has had a very good game, comes off to warm applause.
80 mins
Yaya played in by Bony but his shot is weak.
77 mins
Leroy Fer the lucky QPR man to get the hook. Niko Krancjar has to come on and assume the position alongside his sorry teammates. Kiran Kulkarni writes:
QPR look like the sad bloke who tags along with his mate to a lap-dancing club, only to find out the next morning his mind is a blank, and his credit card has been hit for thousands by some girls who merely sat next to him and persuaded him to buy some expensive but awful champagne.
So in that context Burnley have done well. And let's keep it in context. It's better to go down in control of your finances rather than as ridiculous as Rangers look now.
75 mins
Yaya is in the action right away, they're knocking it around and it is played back to Yaya at the back of the box. He has time to pick out a shot but it's a tame effort.
74 mins
Toure Yaya comes on, Fernandinho comes off.
72 mins
70 mins
Sir Les doesn't look too happy about it all.
69 mins
GOAL! Corner. Bony does brilliantly to win the header, beating Dunne, Aguero scuffs it across the six-yard line and there's good old James Milner to tap it in for the simplest goal he'll ever score. MAN CITY 5 QPR 0 (Milner 69)
67 mins
Bony with an effort, good save Green. Incidentally, I wonder if the appearance of Bony gives a clue as to the fate of Dzeko this summer.
65 mins
GOAL! Aguero smashes it into the side netting, no chance for the keeper. That is Aguero's hat-trick. MAN CITY 4 QPR 0 (Aguero 65)
64 mins
Penalty to City! Ball lofted into the area, Phillips has bundled over Silva... Penalty. Here's Aguero.
63 mins
Excellent direct freekick from Kolarov, beaten away by Green. Frank Lampard comes off and gets a big hand. Bony comes on.
61 mins
City failt to clear properly. Zabaleta charing forward, chopped down by Barton on the edge of the area. Barton booked.
60 mins
David Silva bustles his way into the QPR area, shoots, Green turns it away. Corner played short.
59 mins
Sleepy atmosphere in the ground, the hosts know that this is won and CL football secured. Whether they finish second or third is largely up to Arsenal and, really, not that important.
55 mins
Now Kolarov crosses from the right, here's Fwank Lampard arriving late and unmarked in the area as he has done so many times for club and country but let's be honest mostly club. Uncharacteristically poor shot from him.
54 mins
City thoroughly enjoying themselves, a yawning gap in class exacerbated by some beaten-looking QPR defenders. Silva, Lampard, Milner, Kolarov etc tearing them open down the left. Junior Hoilett is coming on for Zamora.
50 mins
Corner. Silva carries the ball forward and plays the throughball. It should be easy for Yun to cut it out.... He's lifted his boot and let it go straight through him. Oh my days. That is a proper howler, absolutely awful, and guess who is running onto the ball? Yep, it's Sergio Aguero, he's one-on-one with the keeper and he has slotted the ball home and that is the end of that. Just awful defending. MAN CITY 3 QPR 0 (Aguero 50)
The reaction of this QPR fan sums it up.
49 mins
Phillips making good headway down the right, he crosses, Zabaleta has to look lively to head behind.
48 mins
Hart, who has been rather sloppy today (not that it really matters), tries to gather a regulation ball into the area but drops it! Zamora lurking.
46 mins
QPR kick off then, with a 45-minute mountain climb. But it's City who mount the first attack, another good position from which to cross, but the ball in from the right is poor.
HT: MANCHESTER CITY 2-0 QPR
The only interest now, really, is if the QPR players have a fight in the dressing room at half time. QPR didn't turn up for the first ten minutes, they were one down and it could have been two. Soon enough, it was. QPR need three goals or they will be playing in the second tier next term. Parachute payments ahoy.
45+ mins
Little injury time, but it ends with QPR having a freekick... Austin offside. No time for Hart to restart.
43 mins
QPR again doing that very foolish thing where they let one of City's brilliant attackers run at them unimpeded by any defence. This time it's Silva who scythes forward, pulls away to the left and lashes a fierce shot wide.
40 mins
City break! Here's Milner down the right, he's got three, four runners in the centre. They tyranny of choice for Milner, who is a simple lad, and he ends up picking out none of them
37 mins
Comedy couple of moments from Demichelis He stumbles and puts a hand down to steady himself, on the football. Ref doesn't even bother to blow the whistle it was such a bemusing thing to do. Ref shrugs and they play on. Soon Demichelis has fouled Zamora, and from the resulting freekick Fer has struck the ball against the bar. Hart saves gratefully from the Zamora follow up, a weak header. Surely that is offside? QPR needed a bit of luck there.
36 mins
Silva and Aguero are at it again, the latter haring into the area and hitting a strong low shot that Green does well to save.
33 mins
Useful cross from Matt Phillips down the right, but Zamora gets the volley all wrong.
32 mins
GOAL! Kolarov. Left foot. Whipped at a gap in the wall, QPR politely part to let the ball through and Championsip football beckons. On this evidence, richly deserved. MAN CITY 1 QPR 0 (Kolarov 32)
30 mins
Big Richard Dunne has had enough of Aguero with his "running" and his "movement" and decides instead to just shove him onto the ground.
28 mins
Kolarov down the left, superb cross low, Dunne slides in for an important block. Milner goes up for the ball, ref reckons he has fouled Green. Fair enough I would say.
25 mins
Another sweet, sweet move. Aguero plays it, Milner dummies, Silva reverse pass to Milner who crosses low and hard. Mangala unmarked! It just comes at him a bit too quickly, not the right man for the job, and QPR cling on in this match as the City centre-half air-shots it.
23 mins
Really delightful football from City, quick pass and mvoe one touch stuff, really nice to watch and far too good for QPR. Lampard, Silva prominent and it's Fernandinho who finally cracks a shot into the side netting from close range.
20 mins
Joe Hart has a bit of an epsiode and races out into no-man's land. QPR cannot make him pay. Having not bothered with the first ten minutes, QPR have actaully been on top in the last few,
19 mins
Austin's got the ball in the net but is five feet offside. Shame, great header. And a decent cross from Yun.
17 mins
Here's more promising for QPR. Barton Freekick from the right, Dunney making his presence felt and they win a corner as City head behind. City having a tough time clearing it, the ball's pinging around in the area, Austin barges Kolarov over and smashes the ball against the underside of the bar but... the ref had blown the whistle. Still, that was QPR's best play so far.
16 mins
That leads to a corner, and Aguero himself dinks it into the six-yard box. Milner! Oh, he's misjudged the bounce of the ball. That could have been a tap-in had he timed it better. QPR survive, kind of, to fight another day.
15 mins
Silva having these QPR lads on toast, slides another through ball and Aguero is denied by a brave stop from Green.
12 mins
Clever through ball sends Milner racing into the box. Corner.
11 mins
Milner and Zabaleta have sent crosses in from the left and right respectively, Zaba should have done better in a good area. But to be honest there is only one team in it, QPR not at the races and a scond goal feels inevitable.
10 mins
Dunne very nearly opens the door for Aguero as he just runs back alonsgide a long ball rather than getting involved with it, Aguero almost nips in.
4 mins
GOAL! But it didn't really matter, becuase QPR simply haven't turned up for this. Their backs are standing around daydreaming and just letting Augero run at them. He's into the area, almost entirely untroubled by any QPR player, Phillips and Caulker betaltedly try to do something but sure enough, Aguero has slotted it home for what looks effectively like the winner. Professional from Aguero, abject and lazy from QPR. MAN CITY 1 QPR 0 (Aguero 5)
2 mins
My computer has started this afternoon as badly as Mancheaster City. Mickey Mouse operations all round. In the time that it had crashed, QPR gave the ball away in the most pathetic manner, Fer just sliding it across the backline right into the path of Silva. He sends Aguero racing into the box, but the ball just got under his feet and he couldn't get a shot away in a good position, eventually manages to scuff the ball and it's blocked by Dunne.
1 mins
Back three for the visitors. MCFC have a freekick down the left. Play it short.
13.29
The hosts will kick off.
13.28
And here's the men of mettle from Manchester.
13.23
QPR, somewhat confusingly, playing in Man City's away kit.
13.21
Vintage Souey. Magnif. Just makes for excellent TV. I'd love to see him sorting out Disco Adel Taarabt.
13.17
Souey: "In my book, a dressing room, if there's a couple of dodgy ones then the big personalities, the big players, the men, get them out of the door. Ed [Chamberlin, of Sky Sports], you haven't been in a dressing room. I'll tell you how it works. The big players sort it out. If Joey is suggesting he is a proper senior player then he has not done his job."
I would not like to be on Souey's "people to sort out" list. Would you?
13.13
"I am baffled as to what Joey was trying to put across. I didn't find any wrong-uns in that dressing room" - Glenn Hoddle. "They bought players late and their buying was a bit panicky. QPR were on the back foot from the start of the season." Glenn of course was helping out with the coaching there this season. "When I was there everyone was kicking in the right direction." Well, that's the sort of top-level tactics you get. To be fair, he means as in "pulling in the right direction."
13.12
"It has been difficult, but we have seen some bad things this season," says Clint Hill. "This isn't the right time to say anything, so I will keep my own counsel."
Joey: "One or two bad eggs. If I had my way they would have been out of the building."
13.10
• Pellegrini insists he 'doesn't need new contract'
13.06
CIty are level on points with Arsenal in second spot but have played a match more. If QPR fail to win today, they're down.
13.03
Manuel P not being drawn on why the side's form collapsed around Christmas. "It is a difficult game, today," he says of QPR. "They will fight for each ball and that is the same thing that we must do."
12.55
I say! Ed here is putting the boot in.
12.45
That Joey Barton really is the gift that keeps on giving, isn't he? I greatly enjoyed this Barton hits out at "bad eggs" in QPR dressing room
"There's a few people who need to have a good look at themselves,” the midfielder said ahead of Sunday’s encounter away to Manchester City that QPR have to win. “Whatever happens on Sunday and the next two games, you have to be able to look at yourself in the mirror and say I did everything I can. Some people haven't done that.
“On the whole, the dressing room has turned up and given everything. One or two bad eggs have spoiled it. If it had been done my way, they would have been out of the building straight away.”
12.35
For those as like things in words not pictures, here's the lowdown.
Man City: Hart, Zabaleta, Mangala, Demichelis, Kolarov, Fernando, Fernandinho, Milner, Lampard, Silva, Aguero. Subs: Sagna, Kompany, Dzeko, Caballero, Bony, Jesus Navas, Toure.
QPR: Green, Caulker, Dunne, Hill, Phillips, Barton, Henry, Yun, Fer, Austin, Zamora. Subs: Wright-Phillips, McCarthy, Kranjcar, Hoilett, Furlong, Grego-Cox, Comley.
Referee: Mike Dean (Wirral)
12.32
Here is the Manchester City team:
MCFC: Hart, Zabaleta, Demichelis, Mangala, Kolarov, Fernando, Milner, Fernandinho, Lampard, Silva, Aguero. Subs: Caballero, Sagna, Kompany, Toure, Navas, Dzeko, Bony.
Not a bad bench, is it?
QPR, meanwhile, have done theirs in a little picture, which is sweet if slightly annoying for me.
12.30
Afternoon all. Tyers here. Hope you're having a lovely restful Sunday. I myself am in some pain having played cricket for the first time this year yesterday. I wouldn't say I've got any better in the year-long layoff. The sport definitely seems to have got harder, though. Another ramshackle outfit facing a tough test today are the Queen's Park Rangers, who travel to Manchester City in search of vital points. Your match preview is belong, the team news is incoming.
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Bobby Zamora hopes Manchester City's players will be thinking of wearing flip-flops on the beach when QPR arrive looking to keep their slim survival hopes alive.
Burnley became the first side to lose their Premier League status on Saturday, despite securing victory at fellow strugglers Hull.
Rangers will join them in the Championship next term if they fail to triumph at the Etihad Stadium, with Chris Ramsey's men needing to win all three remaining games to keep alive hope of an unlikely escape.
Travelling to second-placed City is an unenviable start to that run-in, but experienced striker Zamora hopes the fact the title race is wrapped up and Champions League football is secure will help the Rs.
"It's a going to be a tough task, obviously, against Manchester City," the 34-year-old said. "It's unlike the last time, that last game of the season (three years ago when City won the title).
"We needed something and they needed something to win the league - they don't have anything to play for as such.
"So we'd like to think they're going to have their flip-flops on and be on the beach, not want to get injured and all those bits and pieces really.
"So that's what we're hoping. We're going to be all guns blazing, and hopefully they have an off day and a relaxed approach to the day and we can get something."
Alan Tyers will be here from 12.30pm to bring you team news, build up and live coverage
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