City weren’t good enough, accepts Kompany

Captain Vincent Kompany accepted Manchester City were simply not good enough as they were humbled by CSKA Moscow in the Champions League.

The Premier League champions are on the brink of elimination from Europe’s top club competition after crashing to a shock 2-1 defeat to the Russian side at the Etihad Stadium.

City had both Fernandinho and Yaya Toure sent off on a miserable night that ended with them bottom of Group E with just two points from four games. They will now go out if they fail to beat Bayern Munich on matchday five and there is a winner in the game between CSKA and Roma.

Manuel Pellegrini’s team were held to a 2-2 draw by CSKA in Moscow a fortnight ago but, buoyed by a derby victory over Manchester United last weekend, had been confident of kickstarting their stale campaign.

Pre-match odds of 9/1 for a CSKA victory reflected the expectation, but City never got going after conceding the first of Seydou Doumbia’s two goals in the second minute.

Kompany said: “I think the result says enough. There is no way we can afford to lose points against a team we should beat every day, especially at home. But it happened and somehow you need to turn towards the future again. One of the good things about football is that there is always another chance, whether it is in this competition or the Premier League.

“It won’t take a lot for everyone at the club to realise we need to do better. I am completely proud of how we played when we were down to nine men. Anyone that saw those last 20 minutes will see everyone gave everything they had. You can’t debate that.

“But before that it wasn’t good enough. It is another 70 minutes where we should have done better.”