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Carlos Tevez seemed to be very disappointed by several Manchester United’s fans scolding him and labeling him a traitor when MU first met Tevez’s new team, Manchester City. Since then, he promised he would go all out on his former team and wouldn’t hesitate to celebrate goals he scored against Manchester United. He proved his words for sure after scoring two spectacular goals against Manchester United on yesterday’s MU vs. Manchester City Carling Cup match.

The match was nothing less than amazing; with both teams playing all out for the spot at Carling Cup’s final match, but the match ended with 1-2 for Manchester City. Tevez scored both Manchester City’s goals without hesitation, and he sure did celebrate the victory without worrying about his old team at all.

After the match, Ryan Giggs — one of Manchester United’s top player — commented that Tevez is a great player. Even so, the team has no regrets letting Teves go to Manchester City. Just weeks before the match, papers and media are reporting how Sir Alex Ferguson considered Tevez’s demands to be too expensive while Tevez considered the team as rather not serious about keeping him in.

“Carlos is a very reliable player, and he is also a great penalty executor,” said Giggs to ESPN Star. With the second leg of this rendezvous coming up shortly, Manchester United players have a lot to make up in order to compete for the Carling Cup. We’ll see if Tevez can go all the way.

It is a great weekend for Liverpool, scoring a spectacular v2-0 victory against Tottenham Hotspurs and climbing up the Premiere League rankings gradually. Liverpool has been showing positive improvements this past couple of weeks; the team is looking pretty solid and we can expect more victories from them for sure. They now scored 37 points and are in sixth place. Spurs, on the other hand, remains in the fourth position with 38 points.

Without Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres, two of Liverpool’s best players, the team entered the match without too many expectations. However, the team’s manager Rafa Benitez used Liverpool’s usual formation (4-5-1), placing Dirk Kuyt as the team’s sole striker while Alberto Aquilani act as a supporting attacker for Kuyt. Phlippe Degen, Liverpool’s fullback, was placed at the centerline to help create movements and set the game’s pace.

The strategy worked out beautifully, with Kuyt scoring the first goal of this match after a mere six minutes into the first half. Kuyt showed a spectacular teamwork with Aquilani before scoring a beautiful goal for Liverpool. Spurs tried to return the tide by pushing forward and pressing Liverpool’s defense line intensely, with several great opportunities including the one where Martin Skrtel made a high-powered attempt against the goal and missed by a couple of inches.

Spurs continued to press forward during the second half, but their attacks were not good enough to break Liverpool’s solid defense. At the very last minute, David Ngog was tackled roughly inside the penalty area; Kuyt did a great job executing the penalty.