Kompany Returns from Injury

[1961_vintage]

Fantastic news. Would be wonderful if he could play 70 mins or so on Sunday.

As for announcing the global injury situation 48 hours ahead of the game, I can see no advantage to us whatsoever. Useful for the opposition though.

 

[The Black Shed]

Fantastic news. If he's fit then play him, he can't get match fit not playing! And this game on Sunday is a must win IMO, so having your skipper back with all the calming effects he has on the team, can only be a positive. "VK - the new soothing balm for all your teams' aches and pains".

 

[NipHolmes]

Lol. You truly don't believe that do you? As for how Kane will play. Exactly as he always does.

Kane may play as he usually does, i.e to his strengths of stretching play and occupying deeper roles and running onto the ball etc.

But to disagree with Tolms bolded partbis madness. Coaches get ready for a game with one of their team accurate tactical reports of their opponents systems. Strengths, weakness, possible subs and go to men etc. Do fullbacks overlap, does a CB run from deep cunningly as he has no marker etc. For set pieces you look for fundamentals, man mark or zonal etc, then you look at who goes where typically, do they have a small man on a post, if so get a big man to attack that area etc.

This is why Pep is so acclaimed, his reports (same as Jose tbh) are what sets him apart from the 99%. Predicting an opponents move before they make it is what football is now about. We are decadedls behind the chess tacticians of Serie A but this league is getting tougher with the influx of foreign managers.

 

[FantasyIreland]

Kane may play as he usually does, i.e to his strengths of stretching play and occupying deeper roles and running onto the ball etc.

But to disagree with Tolms bolded partbis madness. Coaches get ready for a game with one of their team accurate tactical reports of their opponents systems. Strengths, weakness, possible subs and go to men etc. Do fullbacks overlap, does a CB run from deep cunningly as he has no marker etc. For set pieces you look for fundamentals, man mark or zonal etc, then you look at who goes where typically, do they have a small man on a post, if so get a big man to attack that area etc.

This is why Pep is so acclaimed, his reports (same as Jose tbh) are what sets him apart from the 99%. Predicting an opponents move before they make it is what football is now about. We are decadedls behind the chess tacticians of Serie A but this league is getting tougher with the influx of foreign managers.

Why that needs explaining to anyone amazes me......however,as Dax obviously does,thank you for making the effort of doing so.

 

[Peter Doherty]

"Senilegrini"

Give your head a wobble you fucking clown

 

[kiam06]

????

Not sure what's hard to understand have you been watching the same City team as me recently?

 

[come-on-barney]

9 league appearances this season, not lost and have conceded just 2 goals wth VK in the starting lineup.

 

[cibaman]

Keeping your opponent guessing is a tried and tested method
Pellegrini has not done this today given the personnel at his disposal and his previous modus operandi
Spurs will know what to expect

So how will that change anything they're planning to do?

In this case I think the need to raise some of the unremitting gloom and despondency hanging over City this week makes it a reasonable call. The core message from Pellegrini's conference ie that when we have our core of Hart, Kompany, Yaya, Silva and Aguero available we're actually a decent team and will not be quaking in our boots when the mighty, all conquering Tottenham take to the field perhaps needed making.

 

[tonea2003]

So how will that change anything they're planning to do?

In this case I think the need to raise some of the unremitting gloom and despondency hanging over City this week makes it a reasonable call. The core message from Pellegrini's conference ie that when we have our core of Hart, Kompany, Yaya, Silva and Aguero available we're actually a decent team and will not be quaking in our boots when the mighty, all conquering Tottenham take to the field perhaps needed making.

just feel with the injuries we have the team picks itself, and could have kept spurs guessing on silva, that's all really

 

[Robinho's Subbuteo]

Yes, I get what Kompany is. And having bhim might improve us on defense, but it wouldn't change how teams run set plays. Huth would have done the same thing he did. You could argue Kompany might have had a better chance of stopping him, but that's a different claim entirely.

Might? Seriously?