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Furious ... Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini watches on at Everton. Source: AP

Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini was too angry to face the press after the reigning champions fell 15 points behind leaders Manchester United in the Barclays Premier League title race.

Leon Osman's stunning first-half goal set 10-man Everton on the way to an impressive 2-0 win over champions City in a contentious encounter at Goodison Park.

Vastly improved from last week's FA Cup defeat by Wigan Athletic, Everton were unfortunate to have a Kevin Mirallas effort ruled offside before Osman powered the hosts into the lead on 32 minutes.

		P	W	D	L	GD	Pts
1	Man United	29	24	2	3	38	74
2	Man City	29	17	8	4	25	59
3	Tottenham	29	16	6	7	15	54
4	Chelsea	28	15	7	6	26	52
5	Arsenal	29	14	8	7	23	50
6	Everton	29	12	12	5	11	48
7	Liverpool	30	12	9	9	18	45
8	West Brom	30	13	5	12	2	44
9	Swansea	30	10	10	10	2	40
10	Stoke	30	7	13	10	-8	34
11	Fulham	28	8	9	11	-5	33
12	West Ham	28	9	6	13	-9	33
13	Newcastle	29	9	6	14	-10	33
14	Norwich	29	7	12	10	-18	33
15	Southampton	30	7	10	13	-10	31
16	Sunderland	29	7	9	13	-9	30
17	Aston Villa	30	7	9	14	-25	30
18	Wigan	28	6	6	16	-22	24
19	Reading	30	5	8	17	-22	23
20	QPR	30	4	11	15	-22	23

Steven Pienaar was sent off on 61 minutes and City were then denied a clear penalty before substitute Nikica Jelavic made certain of the points in the third minute of stoppage-time to make it nine wins in 12 games against the visitors.

There was no contention about Everton's goal on 32 minutes as Seamus Coleman laid the ball back for Osman and the midfielder's left-footed shot swerved majestically away from Joe Hart and into the net.

The opening stages of the second half offered little goalmouth action but, just past the hour mark, Everton were down to 10 men when Pienaar was shown a second yellow card for a high challenge on Javi Garcia which could easily have brought a straight red card from referee Lee Probert.

With four minutes to go, City should have been awarded a penalty when Tevez's shot was handled by Fellaini, but Probert gave a free-kick despite the Belgium midfielder being two yards inside the box.

In added time, Everton broke clear as Fellaini passed to Jelavic and the Croatian cut inside before seeing his deflected shot loop over Hart to send the Goodison crowd into raptures and leave City 15 points adrift of leaders Manchester United.

A furious Mancini didn't speak to waiting media after the game. His assistant David Platt was disappointed with the decision which denied the visitors a penalty.

"From where I was live, he's given the handball and I don't know if it's inside the area or not, but you've just replayed it and it's not even on the line of the area, he's three yards off it," Platt said.

"He's (Mancini) angry, as you can imagine.

"He's just taking stock of the situation and calming himself down."