Kompany on home form and doing 'something special'published at 14:29 GMT 14 March 2024
Nicola Pearson
BBC Sport journalist
Vincent Kompany has been speaking to the media before Burnley's Premier League match against Brentford on Saturday.
Here are the key lines from his news conference:
Kompany confirmed that they have no new injury concerns for this game and could have a "few positive surprises" for players being available.
On only losing one game at home last year, but only winning one this year, he said: "It is a different league. That is the easiest way to say it, but it doesn't take away the fact we would like to win more at home, we have been close a few times and Saturday is another opportunity for us."
Kompany said "the hardest thing to do in football is score the first goal and that has not been a problem for us" but he added: "At the moment it [Premier League] looks like a striker's league, we're not an exception to that and it's what makes this league the best league in the world. Teams find a way to score and we have to do the same, we need to find ways to score more."
On the form of striker David Datro Fofana, he said: "He is on track for where he is at in his age. There's a reason Chelsea bought him because they must think he is a big talent. I followed him before he went to Chelsea, knew him and spoke to him before, so nice to pick him up and we just needed his profile. What he's done so far we need another 10 times, there's no other way."
Asked whether they can make more of set pieces, he said: "It's how you want to look at it. The positive is we do score goals from open play and that's not easy to do. When you analyse it we have been fairly dangerous at set pieces... the issue isn't creating chances from set plays, we are dangerous but we need to score more and have to believe next game we can do that."
He said they "don't get dragged into anything other than next game" and the "only priority is to make the most of 10 games we have and then can reflect again [on progress of club]".
On still having a chance of staying up, he said: "My life is like this, I look for any opportunity to do something special. This season can still be that so why throw away opportunities? We experienced something fantastic last year and no reason why the next 10 games can't give us the same feeling back."
