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Originally Posted by h8kurdt
So I've thought about this comment today and come to my conclusion.
As we've talked about before truly great defenders are a rarity these days and with that the defense (and it could be said the whole squad) is only as strong as their weakest link. City are pairing up Kompany up with Demichelis and that's a big problem. I honestly don't think Kompany feels like he can truly trust Demichelis to do as good a job as he should be. With that, he's feeling like he's having to cover Demichelis' ground as well as his own, and he's inevitably going to leave space where he's meant to be covering which teams like Barca and co are gonna exploit. Kompany, in my eyes is a great defender, however he's let down by the players around him who he's meant to trust.
Demichelis is an ok player. He's slow as fuck, but when he wants to he can do some good stuff. However, that's not gonna cut it (and hasn't) in the Champions League.
What makes it even worse it City paid what? 30 million? for Mangala? And he's played a handful of games and he's been a liability in those games if I remember rightly (including a kung fu kick against Everton this season). If you can't trust a 30 mil signing to do well as a defender should then they're screwed and never will win the Champions League.
So yeah that's my two pence and re-reading pretty much sums why I'll never be a writer.
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Kompany's definitely trying to do too much but his judgement seems shot and if you look at at least one of the mistakes he made yesterday it was actually MDM (who I think has got a lot better since Pellegrini arrived) who came in and recovered the situation. Quite honestly, if I was Pellegrini I'd be thinking about starting with DM and Mangala (who I also think is getting better), giving Kompany a break to see if it gets his head straight. It worked for Hart. No way will it happen though.