But Kompany said: “Today was a bad day for me”. The only pity was Vincent Kompany’s injury.
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Pellegrini said his team, who suffered a fifth defeat of the season against title rivals Arsenal on Monday, should have scored more goals. It will nearly certainly keep the Belgian out of Tuesday’s clash against Leicester City. It was their 16th win in 20 Premier League games at the Etihad in 2015.
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Kompany has played in nine of City’s 18 league matches this season.
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Manchester City’s club captain Vincent Kompany aired his frustrations regarding his fresh injury blow in an emotionally charged statement on his official Facebook page. The bigger numbers concern the cost of the alternatives.
“Vincent is the captain of the team – you can not be the captain of an important team if you are not an important player”. “It is impossible for the team to have a good performance if you don’t have individuals putting in a good performance”. And, this season, his reliability.
Manager Manuel Pellegrini made a decision to insert Sterling and Bony into the lineup in place of Sergio Aguero and Fabian Delph, and those moves paid immediate dividends in the first half. “We are going to do all the tests he needs to understand why”.
“Without Vincent we must try to continue being competitive. That depends on the performances of Mangala, Otamendi and Demichelís”. We are in all the competitions and we did that without a lot of important players.
With a deft turn that resembled the Zinedine Zidane pirouette, and swiftly followed by a nutmeg on his marker, Kevin de Bruyne lifted the Etihad Stadium crowd to their feet.
“My body feels invincible – the best it’s ever been – but I am challenged by a number of small and local injuries”.
Nonetheless, game over came on 22 minutes, de Bruyne’s free-kick into the box headed in by Bony to put the match to bed before we’d even reached the halfway point of the first period.
For City, Sterling broke through looking to add a fourth, but he was stopped at the last minute by John O’Shea in the box, whilst the next time he got in behind he was flagged offside. The £54m outlay for him was huge, but seems justified. He said: “I would have expected to be better off than we are now”.
His virtuosity, and a match with five goals, a missed penalty and a series of spurned chances, served to illustrate the importance of high-class defenders. For such an expensively assembled side and all the quality they have, they have simply not been good enough in recent weeks.
He would now be looking to buy centre-halves and he would probably be shopping overseas.
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The weather played its part at a blustery Britannia Stadium where Manchester United looked a deflated team in a 2-0 defeat to Sunderland.
