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New signing sparks high-flying Tevez as Manchester City go top

احدث اجدد واروع واجمل واشيك New signing sparks high-flying Tevez as Manchester City go top

Superman ... Carlos Tevez celebrates after one of his two goals for Manchester City in their 4-3 win over Wolverhampton Wanderers. The Argentinian has now scored 12 goals for the season to rise to second on the top scorers list.

Boring, boring, City. The signing of Edin Dzeko, combined with the retention of Carlos Tevez and the growing influence of Yaya Toure and David Silva, has Manchester City fans hoping they can build an exciting second half of the season on the first's solid foundations.

Manager Roberto Mancini's pragmatism has frustrated at times but has put City in the position where they wake up this morning and see themselves top of the English Premier League.

After a flat start, of which Wolves took full advantage, City grew into the game at the City of Manchester Stadium and, in the second half, played some thrilling, fluid attacking football.
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Dzeko tired in the last 20 minutes but, playing as the side's attacking fulcrum, he linked play elegantly, and there is much to come from the Bosnian striker.

What will be encouraging to Mancini is the way that, with Dzeko as the focal point, Tevez was free to roam.

After 20 minutes of Tevez on the left, he started taking up more central positions and, by the second half, was back to his most dangerous, scoring twice as City turned on the style.

Mancini substituted Tevez with nine minutes to go, and he was so influential it seemed almost reckless. "It was Dzeko's first game in 30 days, and I think he played well," Mancini said. "He needs to improve and work hard. He has played just one week with these players, and it will take three or four weeks to know the team well. He worked well with Tevez. They are both good players, and so it should be easy for them to play together."

The news of Dzeko starting had sent a wave of anticipation around the ground but when the first goal came, it was the wrong Balkan - Nenad Milijas, the Serbian playmaker, who gave Wolverhampton Wanderers the lead after 12 minutes. Wolves had started combatively, with City stunned to find their opponents aggressive and in their faces.

Matt Jarvis sent in a cross from the right which deflected off Aleksandar Kolarov. City's Kolo Toure cleared, somewhat timidly, and the ball came back into the danger area off Vincent Kompany. Milijas's first shot was saved by Joe Hart, but the England goalkeeper could do nothing about the rebound.

Mick McCarthy's team had come to play. The Wolves manager played two strikers and two wingers, and they had plenty of options going forward.

They came very close to extending their lead in the first half.

Milijas headed straight at Hart from another Jarvis cross, while only a brilliant Kolarov block denied Jarvis himself. Like so often with Wolves this season, a promising spell was followed by a soft concession.

Adam Johnson's corner for City from the left was met at the near post by Kompany, and his header dropped to Toure at the far post. His shot hit David Jones and dribbled over the line.

"I'm really ill with the goal they scored before half-time," McCarthy said. "We didn't mark, and until then they hadn't had a scratch at our goal."

Having started on the left, Tevez had initially struggled to get into this game, but by the second half he was flying.

Four minutes after the break, he picked up the ball in the right channel before haring off directly for goal.

He swayed between Christophe Berra and Stephen Hunt, accelerated into the box and tucked his finish past Wolves goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey.

If that goal had been about Tevez's individual brilliance, City's third, coming five minutes later was all superb team play. Dzeko picked up a clearance in his own half and played a crisp one-two with Tevez that took him deep into Wolves territory.

Toure, meanwhile, had sprinted almost the length of the pitch to provide support, Dzeko slotted the ball into his path, and he coolly steered the ball around Hennessey.

Tevez, roaming dangerously, added the fourth with 66 minutes played, planting a header in off the underside of the bar from Pablo Zabaleta's cute cross.

Game over, right? Wolves, still moving the ball quickly, did not give up and, to Mancini's frustration, his team let them back into the game.

Joleon Lescott had come on for Toure after 51 minutes, and clumsily pushed over Kevin Doyle in the box, when the Wolves striker was not even facing goal. Doyle converted the penalty, and murmurs went around the home supporters.

"It was stupid," Mancini said. "We need to learn that when we're 4-1 ahead, that the job isn't finished. You need to control the game."

Ronald Zubar, who had headed against the bar earlier in the half, made Maninci's point eloquently. He met substitute Geoffrey Mujangi's corner with a header that Nigel De Jong could not prevent from crossing the line.

There were five minutes of stoppage time, and Mujangi turned home stomachs with a shot that deflected off Kompany and behind. Mancini was raging in the technical area, but tragedy was averted.

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