| Manchester City's sublime start to the season continued with Carlos
Tevez doing the damage in a 3-1 victory over his former club West
Ham.
City's fifth win out of their opening six games represented their
best start since 1961, but it is the here and now that Blues supporters
are more interested in. Two Tevez goals and a first-half free-kick
from Martin Petrov scarcely did justice to their dominance.
West Ham were totally outclassed, even though Carlton Cole did
score an equaliser, and on this evidence they will not be the last
as City seem to have found an irresistible mix of brilliant attacking
play and solid defending.
After finding one set of former supporters no longer regard him
with any affection at Old Trafford last week, Tevez knew he was
on safer ground with the Hammers who, for all the controversy, will
always be grateful for the goals that kept them up.
The respect is mutual and as Tevez raced in front of them after
scoring the opening goal, he raised an almost apologetic hand of
acknowledgement before being besieged by ecstatic team-mates.
It was a pretty significant goal for Tevez given Sir Alex Ferguson's
doubts over his goalscoring prowess, and Petrov's assist was arguably
even more noteworthy.
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