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Stefan Savic is adamant he can fill the void left by suspended captain Vincent Kompany at Manchester City despite conceding the penalty that led to defeat at home to Liverpool on Wednesday.

With Kolo Toure away on African Cup of Nations duty with the Ivory Coast, Savic has been thrust into the limelight following Kompany's failure to overturn a four-match suspension.

It is a lot to ask of a player who only turned 21 this month and has started just one Premier League game since his £6million arrival from Partizan Belgrade in the summer.

The early signs were not encouraging as Savic struggled to cope with Andy Carroll in the first leg of City's Carling Cup semi-final, then caught Daniel Agger with a clumsy challenge that even Roberto Mancini accepted warranted the spot-kick from which Steven Gerrard won the game.

However, Savic did improve after the break, which City can only hope will continue. The Montenegro international will be required to play alongside Joleon Lescott at the DW Stadium on Monday when the Blues head to Wigan.

And, more importantly, Kompany will still be banned when Tottenham head to the Etihad Stadium on January 22nd looking to wipe out City's three-point lead at the top of the Premier League before completing his suspension by missing the return leg against Liverpool at Anfield three days later.
Determined

"When you are replacing someone like Vinny, everyone expects a lot from you," Savic told City's official website.

"He is our captain and our leader. But I think I can do it.

"The first half was difficult and the tackle for the penalty was a bad decision from me.

"But after that we came back into the match and had some chances and we still have a chance to go to the final."

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Venga City, Venga city !

At the end of the day, he's had a little bit of time here and there.
maybe just maybe he can get a grip on whats needed of him...
no can replace vincent...

His debut was astonishing...
If im right he played most of the match midfield, had a cracking game, then dropped back to CB, and was just as good...

but savic..someone must have seen something somewhere in him...

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I Belong To City
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BJWB.1920-31/12/2010.

The bit about him improving after the break is a bit of a joke really considering the dippers hardly left their own half. Let's be honest he's not good enough and that's the bottom line. Bobbys record in signing defenders is bordering on the ridiculous at this stage. That's Boateng, kolorov and now savic 3 duds in 2 seasons. Amazingly had we played Ned last night I don't believe we would have lost at all.

It was. I was at the game against west ham he had a stormer!:approve:

Yeah thats it west ham..i wa was there myself..
Its one of those i remember because of the debut of vinny...
We mugged a lot of teams to get hold, of what is no doubt in my mind, a top 5 defender, in the world....theres not many better

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BJWB.1920-31/12/2010.

We were blessed with firepower back then!

Benjani!

Chedster!

Elano!

Some fella who now plays for Chelski!

so........ can we delete this thread and pretend all this never happened?

Yes ...lets pretent this never happened...

and id like to address my post above from awhile back, where i said vinny is top 5 defender in the world...

he is number 1.......

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BJWB.1920-31/12/2010.

The signs were there