Troy Deeney insists he is a match for anyone on his day – and has vowed to give Manchester City skipper Vincent Kompany one hell of a battle in Saturday’s FA Cup final.
Deeney will go head-to-head with Kompany at Wembley as his Watford side look to stop Pep Guardiola’s men from completing an unprecedented domestic treble, with the showdown LIVE on talkSPORT.
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Troy Deeney is raring to go ahead of Watford’s FA Cup final against Manchester City
The 30-year-old, highlighting just why he is such a popular and refreshing character in English football, said: “I’m going to just talk about myself here. I think if I play well they’ll have had a very difficult day.
“If there’s a lot of crosses in the box, as much as I really respect Mr Kompany, he would say it’s not going to be an easy day.
“Personally, if I’m on my A game it’ll be a very difficult game for whoever’s playing.
“I don’t mean to be disrespectful but I don’t care what people say about how I play football.
“My only bit of encouragement comes from when I come off the pitch and a player will say ‘great game’, or this, that or the other.”
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Deeney, left, says he’ll give City skipper Vincent Kompany ‘a very difficult day’ on Saturday
He added: “I get called fat all the time. You crack on – and it is what it is.
“You can only change people’s perspective by delivering on the pitch and that’s what I’d like to think I’ve done for the large part of my career.
“Me and Vincent Kompany have got a lot of respect for each other.
“I know I have for him, but based on conversations we’ve had, as well as I know, he knows that whenever we’re going up against each other it’s going to be a real battle.
“Because he’s naturally physically strong, I enjoy a physical battle – and neither of us are ever going to back down from one another.
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City and Watford go head-to-head at Wembley on Saturday evening, which is LIVE on talkSPORT
“A bully was a big kid picking on a little kid, so when we’re both 6ft and pretty wide I don’t really class it as bullying, but we’re definitely going to have a few battles and whoever comes out on top will have a massive impact on the game.”
Kompany, 33, has won four Premier League titles with City, four league Cups and one FA Cup in the past eight years.
Aware that this could be the Belgian’s last game for City, Deeney heaped further praise on Kompany.
“You’ve just got to look at when he came in, in the centre of midfield, everyone was saying he was a waste of money,” he explained.
“He then dropped back into centre-back and was outstanding. I haven’t seen a better centre-half since Rio.
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“Obviously Van Dijk is up there doing it now, but in terms of the 10-year span of Vincent Kompany, Rio Ferdinand was probably the last proper centre-half.
“Then you’ve got to look at how many times he’s broken down injured. How easy would it have been for him to just give up? Or to just go, ‘right, it’s not for me’.
“But every time he comes back and he comes back bigger, better and stronger. Just look at the goals he’s scored from centre-half, important goals.
“He’s an absolute beast of a man and if you can’t respect that then you’ve got something wrong with you.”
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