Manchester City 3 Wolves 3

Shaun Wright-Phillips' injury time goal earned Manchester City a point and denied Wolves their first away win of the season in a 3-3 thriller at the City of Manchester Stadium.

Wolves probably deserved all three points, the verve of Henri Camara and Mark Kennedy proving too much too often for leaden-footed and hazy-brained City defending.

It was Camara who put Wolves ahead for the second time 12 minutes from the end when he seized on David James' parry from Kennedy's curling free-kick.

By then Wolves had already wasted a penalty - Dunne pushed Camara in the box but James saved Colin Cameron's spot kick superbly.

The game had started in sizzling fashion and heated up from there.

Nicolas Anelka set Robbie Fowler up for the first decent chance on 12 minutes with a clever reverse pass, but the former England striker's low shot was too close to Paul Jones.

A minute later and Wolves were ahead. Michael Tarnat only half cleared a corner and former City favourite Mark Kennedy lashed a first-time shot from the angle of the box that had swerved into the top corner before James had a chance to move.

City were shocked by that and stunned 10 minutes later when a dreadful defensive mix-up presented Carl Cort with a gleeful tap-in.

But the two-goal cushion was to last only two minutes, before Nicolas Anelka glanced in Steve McManaman's cross from the left.

The goal shook Wolves out of their stride and Fowler should have brought City level when he beat Lee Naylor in the box but drilled his shot into the sidenetting.

City's defence was all over the place and they came within inches of conceding a third when a brilliant piece of skill from Camara took him past Dunne. His deft toe-punt beat the onrushing James, but it rolled agaonising against the foot of the post and wide.

That proved to be a crucial miss as City pulled level six minutes before half-time. Yet again the damage came from the left as Tarnat curled over a free-kick, which Antoine Sibierski - exposing more slack marking among the visitors' ranks - nodded home unmarked.

After the break Wolves again started the brighter and Camara twice had the City defence in trouble down the left.

But City were still creating chances and Anelka ran on to Sibierski's long ball but uncharacteristically scuffed his left foot shot.

After Cameron's penalty miss City looked favourites and twice should have taken the lead.

Fowler again fired into the side netting and after neat link-up play on the right between Wright-Phillips and Sibierski, Anelka's shot was tipped round the post by Jones.

Even after Joey Barton had hacked down Paul Ince to present Wolves with the goalscoring free-kick, City continued to create chances as they hunted a point - and just as crucially looked to deny Wolves two.

First Jones did well to tip Tarnat's powerful free-kick just wide and then Silvain Distin nodded a free header straight into Jones' arms.

Wolves looked to have survived until a corner was cleared into the path of Wright-Phillips on the edge of the box, who drove low through a crowd of players into the far corner.