Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger says Mario Balotelli should've been sent off in the first-half of their victory over Manchester City.
Wenger had every right to be as furious with a Balotelli challenge that could have broken Alex Song's leg.
But he said: "Fortunately, he didn't."
He added: "If the referee had television, he would have given him a red card.
"I thought it was a bad tackle. I said to my physio, 'What happened to Song?' because he said he was touched at the knee.
"I thought maybe it was a red card but I didn't know until I saw it."
Unlike Mancini, Wenger said he could sense Balotelli was on the edge.
"He flirted with 'orange' a few times," he said, refusing to be drawn on how he would handle the explosive forward.
"I don't know him and it's not my job to do that. I don't want to interfere with Mancini's job.
"Everybody has his cases in his own camp and I have enough work."