'I think this season has been interesting, very 'learnful'. Obviously you want to be top of the league and with the ambitions we have we want to be competing for everything and winning everything, but it has been very 'learnful' and I think we are somehow on a good track. It just needs to translate into results.

'We are looking to play the perfect game at the moment, and on the way to playing the perfect game there are a few times where it is not all going your way.

Vinny Kompany on Pep Guardiola's pursuit of perfection, only perfection, in the game. It may be appropriate to sum Vinny's comments with Voltaire's adage that "the perfect is the enemy of the good."