What a way, potentially, to go – via the sweetest of matchwinning, 30-yard goals. With almost 70 minutes played and Manchester City’s title defence in peril, up stepped Vincent Kompany to fire a rocket past Leicester City’s Kasper Schmeichel in the penultimate game of their season-long tussle with Liverpool.
If it proves the final significant act of Kompany’s stellar 11 years at the club, this will be a fitting, storybook ending. After a victory that means City can retain the title by beating Brighton on Sunday the 33-year-old denied he would retire. But Kompany did leave his future open by saying “nothing is written in stone”, a sense reinforced by Guardiola. “We are going to take a beer together and decide what is best – for him and for the club,” the manager said.
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