The City captain has been back in his native Argentina recovering from the thigh injury that forced him off in the 3-0 defeat by Arsenal.
That ruled Tevez out of last Saturday's 2-1 defeat at Wolves and he will also sit out the Europa League game away to Lech Poznan on Thursday evening.
But City boss Mancini revealed his star striker is scheduled to arrive back in England earlier that day and is expected to be fit for Sunday's trip to The Hawthorns.
"Tomorrow he will be in Manchester and I think he will be ready for West Brom. If he is okay then he could be," said Mancini.
"We will probably change some players for tomorrow because with a game every three days it's impossible to play the same players.
"So we need to make changes but we have good players and they can put in some good work."
Kolo Toure and brother Yaya did not travel to Poland to give them more time to recover from injury niggles so Mancini has some enforced changes to make.
City are top of Group A, four points clear of third-placed Juventus with three games left, so they still have some work to do to secure a place in the last 32.
Lech are three points behind City in second after holding Juve in their group opener and they gave the Blues a test before going down to a 3-1 defeat.
But that result came during a run of four straight defeats which has led the Polish outfit to replace coach Jacek Zielinski with former Barcelona midfielder Jose Mari Bakero in the week.
Mancini was on the losing side as Bakero helped Barca beat Sampdoria to win the 1992 European Cup final and the City boss wishes his former adversary well.
"I want to say good luck, not for tomorrow night but for the season," he said. "But I don't think a manager can change things in just one day.
"I know their players well, they are a good side. We will have to work well to win this game.
"Tomorrow will be a different game to a few weeks ago, the atmosphere will be different and they will probably attack us from the start so we will have to pay attention right from the start."
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