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Edin Dzeko's 'heavy goals' delight Manchester City assistant boss David Platt

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David Platt hailed the 'heavy goals' of Manchester City super-sub Edin Dzeko after his brace earned a win at West Brom.

Milner was sent off for a professional foul after bringing down Long midway through the first half. But Platt felt City deserved their victory after controlling the game for long periods despite their numerical disadvantage. Platt, deputising at the press conference for sore throat victim Roberto Mancini, said: "Watching it live it didn't seem a goalscoring opportunity to me for the sending-off. Equally you can see why it is given. "But we can't sit there for 70 minutes grumbling about a decision. "For the rest of the first half we were affected by it to a certain extent and no-one was controlling the game. "We said at half-time if we keep our control and discipline, stay together, we know we can impose our play on them and in that second period we controlled the match. "If you look at the stats of efforts on goal and possession, you wouldn't have thought we'd had a man less than them." Platt admitted City had been tempted to substitute striker Mario Balotelli at half-time after he had been booked early on for bringing down Claudio Yacob. Referee Mark Clattenburg then spoke to City captain Vincent Kompany after Balotelli escaped a second yellow card for a challenge on Long. Platt said: "The temptation is there (to substitute Balotelli). He got booked inside 20 minutes. "We looked at it at half-time but he was causing them a problem and we felt confident just by speaking to him that there was not going to be any loss of head. He looked pretty calm."

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