Champions gain victory through goals from Yaya Toure, Edin Dzeko and Carlos Tevez
Yaya Toure opened the scoring with a close-range finish
Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini lamented his side's finishing after they saw off Queens Park Rangers 3-1 at the Etihad Stadium.
City only had a Yaya Toure goal to show for their dominance when Bobby Zamora stunned the Barclays Premier League champions with a 59th-minute equaliser for QPR against the run of play.
City's response was to go back ahead almost immediately, with Edin Dzeko heading home, while Carlos Tevez added a third in injury time.
"We played well in first half, but we have one problem at the moment: - when we have a chance to score we don't score and the game can change," Mancini said. "We had this problem in the first game and against Liverpool.
"In the second half we didn't play well. We were too slow but in the end it's important that we took three points."
QPR manager Mark Hughes felt his side were unfortunate not to take something from the game.
"We are a little bit disappointed," said Hughes. "In the first half we restricted them to a few chances and the most problems we had were from set-pieces. In general play our shape was good.
"But we were working hard without putting them under enough pressure to affect the game going the other way. We addressed that in the second half and really put a shift in and caused them some problems. We were in control of the game.
"Obviously when we equalised it was a real body blow to concede so soon after that. If we had maintained the position at 1-1 maybe we could have caused them even more problems.
"I sensed there was apprehension in the stadium and that was filtering through to them. We fed off that but in the end we were disappointed. In general we can take positives from
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