Roberto Mancini labelled Man City's performance in defeat to Wolves as their worst of the season.
Boss accepts his side were second best in Molineux defeat
Roberto Mancini labelled Manchester City's performance in defeat to Wolves as their worst of the season.
The Italian admitted their opponents were worthy of the win, but blasted his players for becoming complacent after taking an early lead.
City were ahead on 23 minutes when Emmanuel Adebayor scored from the spot after Richard Stearman had brought down David Silva.
The breakthrough was no less than the visitors deserved after a dominant opening but their showing dipped drastically thereafter and Wolves seized advantage.
Nenad Milijas and David Edwards provided the goals which handed relegation candidates Wolves their first win in eight and Mancini revealed he has yet to piece together exactly what went wrong.
"We only played for the first 25 minutes," said Mancini, who handed Mario Balotelli a disappointing first Premier League start at Molineux.
"We played very well during that period of the game and had four or five chances to score.
'Deserved'
"But then we stopped playing and Wolves deserved to win this game. It was the worst game we have played.
"I don't know why this happened but we must regroup and understand why this happened.
"Maybe we thought after 20 minutes that it was an easy game. A team can lose but you can't lose like we did - playing like that for 60-70 minutes."
Mancini admitted a hint of doubt about City's title credentials before insisting there are enough fixtures to eat into league leaders Chelsea's eight-point lead over them.
Mancini said: "This was the sort of game you have to win if you want to challenge for the title.
"You must play all games at 115%. I must understand very quickly why this happened.
"But the season is long, we started it very well and there is time to recover."
