1) Manchester City 3-0 West Ham, 24 August 2008 Signed only two days before from Hamburg, the then 22-year-old went straight into Mark Hughes’s XI. Vincent Kompany dovetailed smoothly with Michael Johnson in midfield, according to the former Arsenal striker and now pundit, Alan Smith. In front of a City defence that featured Tal Ben Haim, Micah Richards, Vedran Corluka and Michael Ball, with Joe Hart the goalkeeper, this was a display of long range passing and firefighting. It would not be too long before Kompany started playing regularly in his familiar centre-back berth. 2) Manchester City 1-0 Stoke City, FA Cup final, 14 May 2011 Yaya Touré scored the winner as Kompany became the first Belgian to claim an FA Cup winners medal, his dominant performance permitted a Stoke attack, led by Kenwyne Jones, scant chance of breaching Hart’s goal. This was the first of 10 major honours City have claimed under Sheikh Mansour’s ownership and Kompany was present for them all. It is also the only one for which he did not captain the team, with Carlos Tevez wearing the armband on this occasion. The final followed a 1-0 win over Manchester United in the previous round, a…