Vincent Kompany: I’ll only quit Man City when

It may have been a curious moment to highlight City’s profligacy, after David Silva, Kompany, Kevin De Bruyne, Raheem Sterling and Nicolas Otamendi all beat Wayne Hennessey, but Guardiola has noticed a weakness and will not let it slide.

“Of course we missed him a lot”.

City have struggled for defensive solidity under Guardiola but boast clean sheets in three of their past four league matches with their skipper restored to the team.

“Guardiola seems to have his own players that he wants to play and you can’t expect a young player with huge potentials to be wasting away on the bench”.

“I hope United can focus on the Europa League and next season we can have five English teams in the Champions League”. The bare minimum has almost been achieved; City need to get Champions League qualification sewn up, and then thoughts can turn to how they’re going to improve next season. He is a real central defender.

“We can accept the opponent scoring one goal, but we didn’t score enough goals”, Guardiola said on Friday. It’s not about always playing well or badly, it’s not about running more or less, it’s about when you must win you win.

Guardiola, a fan since his days as Barcelona coach, puts him on par with Andres Iniesta and Xavi, and feels only more goals would have helped him rival Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. “And he wins a lot”. “We can enjoy ourselves a little bit (following the win over Palace) and then prepare for Leicester next week”. We can not give all the confidence he will be fit because of the experience of the last years. “We have to have back ups if something happens”.

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“Every season is different so it’s hard to comment, but the way we did it against Palace was good – now we have to do it for three more games”.

“You think of Yaya Toure in that midfield that they have had in the past and that will be the thing going forward”.

City are improving though, with Kompany back from injury last month.

“The good ones make a good impact but not many”.

“It would defy Premier League logic and what I’ve always thought of, having to wade through those winter months and playing those terrible games that we know exist”.

City have had problems in the goalkeeping department this season with Bravo failing to impress after being controversially signed by Pep Guardiola to replace England number one Joe Hart.

“To even leave ourselves in this position with three defeats on the trot, like I said to my players, all they had to do was keeping the draws, keep getting points, and they haven’t done that”.