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Manuel Pellegrini: ‘Manchester City are in a good position’

Kompany’s influence on the City side is huge and the team need him fit to bolster their Barclays Premier League title bid in the second half of the season.

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City now sit third in the table on 35 points, fewer than at the same stage of their two previous title-winning campaigns but still only three points adrift of Arsenal and Leicester City.

“Against Stoke we played very bad so you can’t win if you don’t play very well”. You don’t want to depend on just one player because you have a good squad.

“Everyone must demonstrate their performance in every game and I think more important than just one name is to have a performance as a team”.

That was the first time City had kept a clean sheet without Kompany in the defence, while they have not won away in six Premier League games since a 1-0 victory at Crystal Palace on September 12.

“I don’t think it’s psychological”.

Pellegrini is well aware that, in any of those seasons, the fact that his side have already lost five games would probably have seen them cut adrift in the title race, acknowledging that they can still harbour hopes only because their rivals have been equally erratic. But their 2-1 home defeat by Tottenham Hotspur on Monday came as a setback.

“I think that he is a very professional player”.

“There are a lot of different theories that you can think about”.

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Pellegrini believes City’s problematic away form will be solved once his players’ finishing improves, with his team having taken three points from the past 18 available on the road.

City captain Vincent Kompany