Vincent Kompany - 2018/19 Performances

[bondsman]

A beast and our best defender whenever he plays

 

[FromPollockToSilva]

I love Vinny but Pep leaning on him for these big games doesn’t appear to be working. He played in the 3-0 at Anfield, the 3-2 defeat to the Rags and in the team that shipped 3 last night. Great individual defender but that back four had barely played with each other before last night. Not blaming Vinny for the performance, just questioning whether disrupting our defence to accommodate him for big games is a sound strategy.

 

[Dax777]

I think we'd have picked up at least 1 of the 14/15 and 15/16 league titles.

You look at 15/16 and we lost the league that season because of that derby loss (Demichelis mugged by Rashford), and the Leicester loss, if we'd had a fit Kompany for those games we'd have been ahead of Leicester with 7 games or so to play, instead of being 10 points behind.

And in 14/15 he got injured at Christmas and we dropped some stupid points, so we were only level with Chelsea at New Years, then when he did come back he was not good for the first few weeks and we shipped some very costly goals which effectively ended it.

I'm not sure we'd have won 15/16. We weren't a very good team that year. Some of our players were past. And we were Generally disjointed.

14/15 I think we would have if he had been healthy all thru

 

[Coley4]

I love Vinny but Pep leaning on him for these big games doesn’t appear to be working. He played in the 3-0 at Anfield, the 3-2 defeat to the Rags and in the team that shipped 3 last night. Great individual defender but that back four had barely played with each other before last night. Not blaming Vinny for the performance, just questioning whether disrupting our defence to accommodate him for big games is a sound strategy.

Not sure how you have drawn these conclusions. We have won every game Kompany has been involved in this season (bar the wolves 1-1 draw). Every time we needed a result/big game he has been class. He was our best defender against Liverpool at home , against Spurs on Wednesday and when we needed to steady the ship after 2 defeats on the bouce in Xmas period. The problem is when he has not played unfortunately. When he is fit (big if) he is still our best defender.

 

[domalino]

I never like writing something negative about Vinny of all people, but my god he was a liability in that first half. I was waiting for him to get a second booking all game, and the passing was like going back to Pep's first preseason in 2016. He could quite easily have cost us that game.

My issue isn't actually with him, he's 33, he's on his way out, testimonial in the summer, his role is supposed to be 4th choice CB who's main contribution is being a leader in the dressing room.

The problem is why is he seemingly our 2nd choice CB over John Stones, Pep's project player who the team was supposed to be built around, and Otamendi who is supposed to be the reliable veteran in his prime? Stones currently looks no closer to replacing Vinny than he did when he walked through the door 3 years ago.

If we'd lost the league because Kompany got sent off trying to bring down Rashford who he simply physically can't keep up with anymore, it would have been a massive disservice to Vinny.

 

[kaz7]

Shaky as fuck but still the leader we need for the big games

 

[Gabriel]

Like the vintage car you keep in the garage and bring out for a spin when the weather is nice and for special occasions.

 

[mccity]

He was clearly played for his leadership, and it paid off.

 

[Dax777]

I never like writing something negative about Vinny of all people, but my god he was a liability in that first half. I was waiting for him to get a second booking all game, and the passing was like going back to Pep's first preseason in 2016. He could quite easily have cost us that game.

My issue isn't actually with him, he's 33, he's on his way out, testimonial in the summer, his role is supposed to be 4th choice CB who's main contribution is being a leader in the dressing room.

The problem is why is he seemingly our 2nd choice CB over John Stones, Pep's project player who the team was supposed to be built around, and Otamendi who is supposed to be the reliable veteran in his prime? Stones currently looks no closer to replacing Vinny than he did when he walked through the door 3 years ago.

If we'd lost the league because Kompany got sent off trying to bring down Rashford who he simply physically can't keep up with anymore, it would have been a massive disservice to Vinny.

One of the 3 wrong decisions by Pep in my opinion. Not starting Gundogan at DM, not Starting Sane, and starting Kompany. He rectified 2 midgame luckily and we got away with a victory.

 

[jimmygrimblesboots]

Great defensive work , but his distribution was poor tonight gave away to many loose passes , last twenty minutes i thought he struggled a little , but what a leader and captain , he battled and put Rashford in his place early doors , he deserves a couple more years at the club.