Source: Team_Talk
Tevez on fire ahead of reunion
Manchester City's Carlos Tevez will face old club United in arguably the form of his life after starring in Sunday's 5-1 win over Birmingham.[LNB] Since moving to Eastlands in the summer, Tevez has scored 28 goals, 20 of them coming in the last 18 league games.[LNB]It is a formidable record and his new club are reaping the benefits as they cemented fourth place in the Premier League table with a comfortable victory at home to Alex McLeish's Blues.[LNB]Tevez and Emmanuel Adebayor scored a brace each with Nedum Onuoha also on target in a comfortable victory.[LNB]Onuoha also appeared to have scored the second goal but admitted Tevez got a touch.[LNB]Onuoha said: "He can have it, it's fine. He rushed to me at half-time as he's desperate to be top scorer."[LNB]Tevez made the breakthrough in the 38th minute when he scored from the penalty spot after Scott Dann was adjudged to have bundled over Adebayor.[LNB]The Argentina international stepped up and sent Maik Taylor the wrong way to put City in the driving seat.[LNB]Tevez extended their lead before Birmingham pulled a goal back two minutes later with Cameron Jerome heading home.[LNB]City responded immediately with Adebayor scoring in the 43rd minute when he got on the end of Bellamy's delivery with Taylor out of position.[LNB]They went further ahead in the 74th minute with Onouha shrugging off a couple of half-hearted challenges before scoring and Adebayor scored his second two minutes from time after running from deep.[LNB]Next up for Robert Mancini's side is the derby at home to United at lunchtime on Saturday.[LNB]Birmingham have now failed to win in six league games but manager McLeish expects a positive response.[LNB]He said: "We didn't play that badly. It was just City's front four were different quality.[LNB]"We added to our own downfall with some sloppiness and there are things to work on. But we are still developing as a team.[LNB]"The players will be determined not to let things slip and hopefully we can put things right in the next game."
