{"id":413100,"date":"2011-05-01T18:05:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T18:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/01\/vincent-kompany-says-manchester-city-are-a-better-side-than-last-season-after-home-win-over-west-ham-united\/"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:05:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T18:05:00","slug":"vincent-kompany-says-manchester-city-are-a-better-side-than-last-season-after-home-win-over-west-ham-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/01\/vincent-kompany-says-manchester-city-are-a-better-side-than-last-season-after-home-win-over-west-ham-united\/","title":{"rendered":"Vincent Kompany says Manchester City are a better side than last season after home win over West Ham United"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Steve Hewlett<\/h3>\n<h4>1 May 2011 19:05:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"67.58325\">\n<div readability=\"14.9894736842\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Vincent Kompany of Manchester City (Getty Images)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/4f965e43106686_news.jpg.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Vincent Kompany of Manchester City (Getty Images)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span readability=\"33.7492555092\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/109\/manchester-city\">Manchester City<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/belgium\/5227\/vincent-kompany\">Vincent Kompany<\/a> has stated that the Eastlands side are a much improved outfit on last season after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/italy\/170\/roberto-mancini\">Roberto Mancini<\/a>\u2019s side held on to a 2-1 home scoreline against <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/374\/west-ham-united\">West Ham United<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Belgian centre-half was called upon a number of times as City had to pull down the shutters to keep West Ham at bay in a second half which was far more uncomfortable than City would have liked. But Kompany was still positive despite the win being slightly hard-fought.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast season we would have lost points in a game like this. We\u2019re really happy because it wasn\u2019t easy,\u201d he told <em>Sky Sports<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we got over confident in the second half. It could have gone wrong and in previous seasons, it could have hurt us but we defended well and it was an important victory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>City &#8216;keeper Joe Hart was also required to quell United. The England number one was confident that, if needed, City had another goal in them:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a bit nervy, but I think if we needed to step it up another gear we could have done.\u00a0 We got the two goals, but it\u2019s fair to say we got sloppy and let them back in it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nigel de Jong opened the scoring with his maiden goal for the club before Pablo Zabaleta made it two. Demba Ba gave the Hammers hope but it proved not enough on the day.<\/p>\n<p>The result leaves City in fourth, five points behind Arsenal with a game in hand and Kompany remains confident that the side will finish strongly and ensure Champions League football which the Belgian knows is crucial for the long-term progress of the club:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s massive, not just for the players but the club and the fans, we really want to achieve this and why not catch up with Arsenal?&#8221;<br \/><span><span><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/4f965e43106686_news.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See original here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/05\/01\/2466828\/vincent-kompany-says-manchester-city-are-a-better-side-than-last-\" title=\"Vincent Kompany says Manchester City are a better side than last season after home win over West Ham United\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vincent Kompany says Manchester City are a better side than last season after home win over West Ham United<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Steve Hewlett 1 May 2011 19:05:00 Vincent Kompany of Manchester City (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Manchester City \u2019s Vincent Kompany has stated that the Eastlands side are a much improved outfit on last season after Roberto Mancini \u2019s side held on to a 2-1 home scoreline against West Ham United on Sunday. The Belgian centre-half was called upon a number of times as City had to pull down the shutters to keep West Ham at bay in a second half which was far more uncomfortable than City would have liked<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Vincent Kompany says Manchester City are a better side than last season after home win over West Ham United - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/01\/vincent-kompany-says-manchester-city-are-a-better-side-than-last-season-after-home-win-over-west-ham-united\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Vincent Kompany says Manchester City are a better side than last season after home win over West Ham United - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Steve Hewlett 1 May 2011 19:05:00 Vincent Kompany of Manchester City (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Manchester City \u2019s Vincent Kompany has stated that the Eastlands side are a much improved outfit on last season after Roberto Mancini \u2019s side held on to a 2-1 home scoreline against West Ham United on Sunday. 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