Manchester City boss Mark Hughes felt his team got the worst of the decisions of referee Steve Bennett in the 2-1 defeat at Wigan. "I thought he was in good positions to make key decisions but he got the penalty wrong, it was just a coming together and their lad (Palacios) dived theatrically - then he missed Richard Dunne when he was clearly impeded (by Heskey) in their box.

"There was a very similar one in the second half when Micah Richards came together in a similar situation and he dived theatrically - but the foul went against him.

"I felt there were a few decisions that were a bit mystifying."

However, Hughes was not impressed with his team's performance, adding: "We are disappointed - we expected to get something out of the game.

"We had enough possession but didn't have enough tempo to our passing in the second half, or a cutting edge.

"Maybe if we'd had a better final ball we'd have created something but because the tempo was slow they got bodies behind the ball and it was difficult to break them down.

"It was a stop-start game and there wasn't the flow or momentum we wanted.

"We needed that to drive us forward but we never got our game going."