Tevez on fire ahead of derby

 Former Manchester United striker Carlos Tevez will face his old club on Saturday — arguably in the form of his life.

Since moving to Manchester City in the summer, Tevez has scored 28 goals, 20 of them coming in the last 18 league games.

His new club is reaping the benefit as City cemented fourth place in the Barclays Premier League table with a 5–1 victory against Birmingham at Eastlands.

Tevez and Emmanuel Adebayor scored a brace each with Nedum Onuoha also on target in a comfortable victory.

Onuoha also appeared to have scored the second goal but admitted Tevez got a touch.

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.

The Argentina international stepped up and sent Maik Taylor the wrong way to put City in the driving seat.

Tevez extended their lead before Birmingham pulled a goal back two minutes later with Cameron Jerome heading home.

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.

They went further ahead in the 74th minute with Onouha shrugging off a couple of half-hearted challenges before scoring and Adebayor added his second two minutes from time after running from deep.