Vincent Kompany speaks following Everton defeat

Vincent Kompany was disappointed to get knocked out of the Carabao Cup by Everton.

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00:00 Probably if I look back at what I was feeling after the game,

00:05 I mean, I'll never master the art of feeling good after a defeat,

00:10 so this doesn't feel great,

00:12 but it's different than what we probably would have felt

00:17 after the Brentford game a week ago.

00:19 So I think in large parts we kept it a game,

00:24 the first half was good,

00:26 but then obviously mistakes, costs, especially at this level.

00:31 I keep saying you're in the Premier League,

00:34 so when you get promoted it's not supposed to be easy,

00:37 you're still all on a journey to get to that level,

00:41 year one is never easy.

00:44 That's part of something we're experiencing right now,

00:49 duels, lack of communication on one phase or the other,

00:53 and before you know it a good performance turns into something

00:57 where you go looking for more.

01:00 But it's part of what you have to deal with and you have to go again,

01:06 next game is most important.

01:09 The point is more, like I said before,

01:11 you go through not just ourselves,

01:14 the other teams that get promoted,

01:16 and like I said, there's such a huge gap between the Championship

01:21 and the Premier League, which you can't forget.

01:24 I was explaining to some of the people,

01:27 and it's not an excuse, it's just a motivation to belong there,

01:31 it's not by any means something...

01:35 But I was explaining to people when I was in the Championship,

01:39 the level of the Championship was very similar to the level

01:42 of the Belgium Drupal Pro League where I was before, very similar.

01:45 You could take a player from there, put it there,

01:48 and a good player there would be a good player in both leagues.

01:51 But you would never consider that that level would then go

01:56 into the highest level in world football straight away.

01:59 So this is what we're experiencing, obviously,

02:00 with the Championship going into the Premier League.

02:03 It's that big of a gap.

02:04 It's like you go from division number 10 or 12 in Europe

02:09 into division the highest in the world.

02:12 And that's the exciting part for us, really exciting.

02:16 But also the logical part where you have to stay calm

02:20 and work with the team to get there every single time

02:23 and make sure that the next game is the best game.