Milner rallies the goal-hungry Blues

MANCHESTER City midfielder James Milner admits he doesn’t know the secret behind the team's free–scoring home form – but hopes it continues against Arsenal tomorrow.

City host the Barclays Premier League leaders and hope to maintain their 100 per cent record at home.

Milner is at a loss to explain the difference: “We have been playing pretty well away as well for most of the games, but we just haven’t had the luck or we haven’t finished our chances as well.

City will certainly take some encouragement from their most recent away performance, a brilliant midweek fightback against Bayern Munich in the Champions League.

Victory over Arsenal would lift City within three points of the top spot. The England international, who scored City's winner in Germany, said: ‘I think with the quality we have in the squad, there is always going to be competition for places.

“When you train every day you have to perform and whenever you get a chance, you just want to get out there and play well. It’s healthy for the team that you have to play really well to stay in it.”