Micah Richards believes Manchester City would be among the table leaders if not for their leaky defence.

He said: "We have conceded a few goals this season but I don't think you can put that down just to me and Richard Dunne.

"It is the whole team, just as it is when we score. We will try to recapture our form of last season. Then I hope we will stop the goals going in."

Richards insists that City have not had the rub of the green so far.

"Every game we have played this season we should have won," he told the Manchester Evening News.

"We just missed out by a fraction in some games so that's why I would not worry about the league position.

"If you look at the last two games we were very hard done by but we have to let that go now and look forward to the next match."