Pablo Zabaleta says Yaya Toure's return for Manchester City is a huge boost to their title hopes.

Zabaleta believes Toure's return after two weeks of thigh trouble will boost City for Saturday's trip to Everton, and home challenges against Aston Villa and West Ham.

"You always need big players in the team. I think Yaya showed one more time that he's one of the main players of this team," he said.

"He's having a great season; one assist, another goal, fantastic for the team and great to see Yaya back.

"We have three games still to play, everything is in our hands again: we know that we must win those games if we want to win the title again.

"But it's going to be very difficult, the next game is Everton away and that's always been very tough for us.

"They are playing for the fourth place, so nothing is going to be easy."