Vincent Kompany

Kompany: Man City benefitting from summer market work

tribalfootball.com (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago

Vincent Kompany has credited Manchester City 's sudden form surge to the work of manager Mark Hughes in the summer market. read more

20) MC ISSUES Man of the Match vs Chelsea?

MAN CITY ISSUES (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009

Game: Manchester City vs Chelsea Premier League Game Venue: Eastlands Date: 05th December 2009 Score: 2 - 1 - 34) Nigel de Jong - 68% - 32) Caros Tevez - 18% - 1) Shay Given - 9% - 8) Shaun Wright-Phillips - 5% - 19) Joleon Lescott - 1% - 10) Robinho - 1% - 25) Emmanuel Adebayor - 0% - 18) Gareth Barry - 0% - 3) Wayne Bridge - 0% - 33) Vincent Kompany - 0% (sub) - 2) Micah Richards - 0% - 28) Kolo...

Bridge's replacement?

MAN CITY ISSUES (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009

Yesterday, it was confirmed that Wayne Bridge could miss 2 or 3 weeks of football after colliding with Juliano Beletti on Saturday. The left-back was caught by a late challenge and he has opened up some of his medial knee ligaments. This news is a blow as our defence as they had just started to look like a unit. I'm not Bridge's biggest fan but he will be missed. Option 1) However, we should have no...

Onouha's concerns

Bitter and Blue (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009

Lost a little amongst yesterday's news was an interview in The Independent with Nedum Onouha, which covered a number of interesting topics - most notably around the difficulties Academy players (himself included) face in breaking through into the side given the changes the club has gone through: "Three or four years ago at this point he [Weiss] might have played 50 games for the club already,"...

Man City vs Arsenal

Smart Betting - Sports Betting Tips (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009

In this game I think we wont see a lot of goals. Both coaches will line-up practicly second team, but Wenger has not too many choices. Bearing in mind that Van Persie and Bendtner are injured and Eduardo played on Sunday against Chelsea, I think he is going to be rested tonight. Any who will perform then - some of the inexperienced young football player. With the names of prety unknown Jack Wilshere...

Frank Lampard follows Robin van Persie to see 'placenta therapist'

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009

• Lampard travels for 'placenta treatment' in Serbia • Arsène Wenger supports alternative therapies Frank Lampard has become the latest Premier League player to visit the Serbian doctor Marijana Kovacevic as he tries to speed his recovery from the thigh tear suffered while on England duty. The midfielder had initially been ruled out for around three weeks after sustaining the injury...

Manchester City's Vincent Kompany expelled from Belgium squad

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009

• First offence was missing a team meeting by five minutes • Second was arriving back late from grandmother's funeral Manchester City midfielder Vincent Kompany has been expelled from Belgium's squad ahead of their game with Qatar after twice turning up late. Kompany was initially dropped to the bench by coach Dick Advocaat for the match against Hungary on Saturday after arriving five minutes...

• Grieving Kompany axed from Belgium squad as Advocaat punishes late show - Football.co.uk

Bellamy the leader

Bitter and Blue (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009

There were no punch-ups and no fists flying in Manchester City's dressing room last week. Just good old-fashioned verbals. Typically, it was a vintage performance by Craig Bellamy, bawling out his team-mates after they tossed away a win. In the line of fire was City's back four - Pablo Zabaleta, Kolo Toure, Joleon Lescott and Wayne Bridge - following their draw with Burnley. He pointed the finger...

Bellamy the leader

OmniFootball (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009

There were no punch-ups and no fists flying in Manchester City's dressing room last week. Just good old-fashioned verbals. Typically, it was a vintage performance by Craig Bellamy, bawling out his team-mates after they tossed away a win. In the line of fire was City's back four - Pablo Zabaleta, Kolo Toure, Joleon Lescott and Wayne Bridge - following their draw with Burnley. He pointed the finger...

14) MC ISSUES Man of the Match vs Birmingham

MAN CITY ISSUES (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009

MOTM: Birmingham City vs Manchester City Premier League Match Venue: St Andrews Date: 1st November 2009 Score: 0-0 - 1) Shay Given - 85% - 3) Wayne Bridge - 4% - 8) Shaun Wright-Phillips - 2% - 32) Carlos Tevez - 2% - 18) Gareth Barry - 1% - 34) Nigel De Jong (c) - 1% - 19) Joleon Lescott - 1% - 14) Roque Santa Cruz - 1% - 5) Pablo Zabaleta - 1% - 39) Craig Bellamy - 0% - 7) Stephen Ireland - 0% -...

Given saves City from lose

Soccer news (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009

Newcastle Goalkeeper former Shay Given produced a superb display to save Manchester City from loses against Birmingham at St Andrew's on Sunday. Shay Given made a string of fine saves, the highlight a second-half penalty stop to deny James McFadden. It was a fourth successive draw in the Premier League for Mark Hughes' side, who nonetheless moved into the top four on goal difference. And Mark Hughes,...

13) MC ISSUES Man of the Match vs Scunthorpe

MAN CITY ISSUES (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009

MOTM: Birmingham City vs Manchester City Premier League Match Venue: St Andrews Date: 1st November 2009 Score: 0-0 - 7) Stephen Ireland - 38% - 14) Roque Santa Cruz - 15% - 32) Carlos Tevez - 13% - 34) Nigel De Jong (c) - 9% - 40) Vladimir Weiss - 7% - 6) Michael Johnson - 6% - 16) Sylvinho - 5% - 19) Joleon Lescott - 3% - 1) Shay Given - 2% - 33) Vincent Kompany - 1% - 5) Pablo Zabaleta - 1% - 18)...

Birmingham 0-0 Man City

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009

Manchester City's season has turned into a grind. Four successive Premier League draws have applied the brakes to their early momentum and, in the process, provided a reminder of just how far Mark Hughes's side have to go before they can be considered title contenders. For the first time in nine matches, the visitors kept a clean sheet, although Birmingham City's failure to score owed nothing to the...

Scunthorpe recap

Bitter and Blue (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009

With a history of recent slip ups to lower league opposition, there is a tendancy to view fixtures such as last nights with a degree of trepidation, and when we gifted Scunthorpe an equaliser after going ahead so early, there could well have been a sense of foreboding around the stadium. This season though there has been the first suggestions that the old mentality is being cast aside and rather than...

Kompany: New Man City players have lifted us

tribalfootball.com (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009

Vincent Kompany says the characters Manchester City boss Mark Hughes signed in the summer has lifted the quality of the squad. read more