Rich Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 Nah. On his day Kompany is an excellent defender, but there haven’t been many of those days since City won the title two years ago, when the Belgian was the best centre-back in Europe. Kompany remains a fine player, but he’s committed almost every kind of defensive error in the last year or so – vulnerable to pace, capable of scoring crazy own goals, mistiming tackles, getting spun high up the pitch, jumping into tackles two-footed, losing his man at set-pieces, getting caught in possession. English football seems to have a blind spot to his failings, too: one newspaper column declared him the player of the season on the morning of this game, another gave him 8/10 for this display where, again, he was responsible for all three goals. Imagine the reaction had Demichelis cost City three goals in three different ways… Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
triggs Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 Nah. On his day Kompany is an excellent defender, but there haven’t been many of those days since City won the title two years ago, when the Belgian was the best centre-back in Europe. Kompany remains a fine player, but he’s committed almost every kind of defensive error in the last year or so – vulnerable to pace, capable of scoring crazy own goals, mistiming tackles, getting spun high up the pitch, jumping into tackles two-footed, losing his man at set-pieces, getting caught in possession. English football seems to have a blind spot to his failings, too: one newspaper column declared him the player of the season on the morning of this game, another gave him 8/10 for this display where, again, he was responsible for all three goals. Imagine the reaction had Demichelis cost City three goals in three different ways… Somebody gave him an 8/10 for that display? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beren Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 Definitely not the rock Citeh have needed him to be. Doesn't help being paired with shite most of the time though. More responsibility on his shoulders = greater margin for error. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 Definitely not the rock Citeh have needed him to be. Doesn't help being paired with shite most of the time though. More responsibility on his shoulders = greater margin for error. Nailed it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 30k away fans in the Arouca 0-2 Benfica on Sunday. 1 victory away from the portuguese title. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 Arsenal playing the most 1 paced midfield and attacker seen since Stoke on Saturday. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The College Dropout Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 Is it just me who thinks that Kompany makes these "uncharacteristic" errors in the same way that Petr Cech used to do? People have said here and other places - Demichelis has gotten the blame for a handful of Kompany mistakes, at least. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The College Dropout Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 Definitely not the rock Citeh have needed him to be. Doesn't help being paired with s**** most of the time though. More responsibility on his shoulders = greater margin for error. The mistakes he made at the weekend where all of his own doing. Demichelis had a decent game. Kompany didn't. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The College Dropout Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 "We can't attract players if we aren't in the Champions League" I keep hearing. Do people not realise L'pool are on the verge of winning the league? They haven't been in the CL for 4 years now? 5? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiresias Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 yeah it's actually "we can't attract players as we don't want to be in the champions league" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdckelly Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 "We can't attract players if we aren't in the Champions League" I keep hearing. Do people not realise L'pool are on the verge of winning the league? They haven't been in the CL for 4 years now? 5? I'm not sure how much arsenal really want to push the boat out to compete for the title where they are now is quite comfortable in the grand scheme of things not spending much certainly not what they could and just appearing in the CL they get the big cash and can have the glorious defeats where yes they lose but they give it such a good go all while charging the fans through the nose. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyt Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 Kim Kallstrom starts. Cherno Samba on the bench Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 1-0 Dortmund, Mkhitaryan! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyt Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 Diame still have that cheap release clause? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyt Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 Carroll winning all these headers at the Emirates Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Geordie Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 30k away fans in the Arouca 0-2 Benfica on Sunday. 1 victory away from the portuguese title. 30k? Decent tbh How does that work when their home ground only holds 5000? Was the game moved to a bigger stadium? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anderson Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 Giroud, what a twat. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 2-0 Lewandowski Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaKa Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 Really can't stand Giroud. Unbelievably frustrating player. Just such a dufus a lot of times. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Geordie Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 Arsenal 0 West Ham 1 Jarvis Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 Classic Arsenal. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashley17 Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 Piers Morgan will probably combust with anger. Good. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flip Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 This Arsenal side is hopeless. Seems more and more like Ramsey and Özil carried that side in the beginning of the season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaKa Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 So shit man. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaKa Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 They have nothing upfront. Giroud is a plodder, and isn't classy enough. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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