Kompany on Bayern MUnich's 1-0 loss at Aston Villa
02/10/2024
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Villa Park, Birmingham, UK
02/10/2024
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Villa Park, Birmingham, UK
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00:00Yes, hello, welcome, good evening, welcome to the final press conference, oops, to the
00:11final press conference after the Champions League game of FC Bayern here at Essen-Villa,
00:15now with Marseille-Compagny, the assessments and the questions, please, starting with the
00:21first hand signal.
00:22Who wants to start?
00:25Yeah, the Bayerische Rundfunk, at the back of the camera, please.
00:29How do you do it when you hear the whole stadium singing and are happy that in 1982 Leipzig
00:39was repeated and that although the two had so much possession again?
00:44I didn't even understand that it was sung.
00:47My focus was totally on the game and yes, we have a good chance that we don't use it
00:55today and they have a moment and okay, that's part of it, that's football and that's bitter,
01:01of course, but that doesn't decide the Champions League today and we have to continue
01:07so that we can get our success.
01:14Thank you, Vini.
01:15The next question then.
01:17From which area?
01:19Very briefly, okay.
01:21Yes, let's continue with the BR, please.
01:25Maybe you could say something about Jamal Mousiala.
01:28Of course, we were all surprised when we saw that he didn't play from the start,
01:32but was on the bench.
01:33What were the reasons for that?
01:36It just has to do with the last game and he didn't feel well for almost two days
01:45and we knew, okay, 90 minutes doesn't work, maybe 45 and that's why at half-time
01:52it was the possibility for us to bring him in.
01:54It's always easier than changing a player, of course, but yes, that was purely physical
01:59and it shouldn't be a problem for the next game, of course.
02:06Do we have some English questions?
02:09Are you all working?
02:10Okay.
02:12Die Süddeutsche Zeitung, okay.
02:14Hello, hello.
02:15Mr. Kompany, you changed Palinja, it was 0-0, was that a moment where you thought
02:20that it would be okay to save the 0-0 victory over time
02:23or was it still the idea to win?
02:28The idea is always to win.
02:30It wasn't a second in my head that we wanted to keep it 0-0.
02:37We played two big games against Leverkusen and Aston Villa
02:44and we have a card that we have to use.
02:47That's why it was the right moment from our point of view
02:51to bring some freshness to the team and that's what it was about.
02:58That's what it was about.
03:02Okay.
03:05Yes, please.
03:09It's not a group stage, it's a table.
03:13What is it? It's a league.
03:17It's a league.
03:19You're not saying that against you or the rest of your team,
03:22but as a football fan, you've been playing in Germany most of the season.
03:28Did it feel like a great occasion tonight?
03:33If you take your buying perspective away just for a second,
03:37could you enjoy and appreciate the occasion?
03:41Yeah, I think when it comes to winning or losing,
03:44you don't need to take the context of so many years into it.
03:47It's just we lost the game.
03:49The game has its own story.
03:53We had big chances, didn't score them.
03:56We gave away a moment and in that moment, Aston Villa obviously scored a goal.
04:06I understand the occasion it was for the opponent today
04:08and of course it's a special night for them,
04:10but it doesn't decide the Champions League today.
04:14We have to take our learnings from this game
04:16and I'm convinced that we're the type of team
04:19that will score the goals more often than we won't.
04:21But tonight, that's the story of the game.
04:25How difficult are Aston Villa's two centre-forwards to play against?
04:29First of all Watkins and then Duran after he came off the bench.
04:33It's a Champions League team coming out of the Premier League,
04:40so we know how competitive it is to get into the top four.
04:45For that you need top players.
04:50Their strikers of course are capable of doing this.
04:55But like I said, it's something you always take into consideration
05:00and the main thing for us is in terms of how the game went,
05:04there's a story as well to this game.
05:06Like I said, the point is we have 15 minutes in the first half
05:14where it looks like we're starting really bright,
05:16it looks like we're continuing with the momentum we've built.
05:20And then we have half an hour, and this I will agree with,
05:25where although we're not conceding big chances,
05:30you feel moments could happen.
05:33It had that smell in the first half, certainly for half an hour,
05:37not in the first 15-20 minutes.
05:39And then the second half I feel like that went again a little bit,
05:44so the threat wasn't there anymore as much.
05:46It had to do as well with the fact that our distances were a lot better
05:50in the second half to recover balls than in the first half.
05:53But you play against a team at home, if they resist and if they're able to defend well,
06:00because it's not just us having big chances, it's them defending well as well,
06:04then you always know that you can have a moment.
06:06And football is like this, if you don't take your chances it can happen.
06:17Hi Vinny, just in terms of the start you've had it by,
06:20and obviously loads of early wins, loads of goals,
06:22then the two games this week against Leverkusen and Aston Villa.
06:26How much harder have you found it in those two games,
06:29and what do you think you've learned compared to what was going before?
06:33I think over two games against two teams that I rate extremely highly,
06:38we conceded very few chances.
06:42And what we normally do so well, which is scoring our goals,
06:46for one reason or another it's just been on the bar, on the post,
06:51or it's just been a near miss.
06:53But with the team that we have, I would never see this as a trend,
06:58that's what happened for us now this week.
07:02If we just focus on our own work, we'll win a lot of games still.
07:10OK, thank you.
07:12One last question.
07:13OK, yes, please.
07:16Because you mentioned the lessons you have to learn from such a game,
07:19can you tell us which lessons you want to learn now,
07:22what are the steps you want to take?
07:24Yes, but of course learning, always be careful with that word,
07:29because it's about winning, it's about the result,
07:32but everything, even if we win 5-0, there's still something to learn.
07:40I've explained everything, how the first half went,
07:44where we start really well, where everything looks like the last few weeks,
07:49and then where we're maybe half an hour late.
07:54Not that we want that, but it just happens.
07:57And in the second half, we talked about it,
08:01in the second half it looks better again.
08:05And that's what I mean, it's not about winning or losing,
08:08it's just about having a chance.
08:10The players know it themselves, if we have it, we have to score goals,
08:15but I have total confidence that our team will score a lot of goals this season.
08:22But it's important that we don't take that step later,
08:26and that was the case 30 minutes ago.
08:28Not the whole game, 30 minutes,
08:31and we want that every minute of the season,
08:36that we always have the same level, that is, top level.
08:39And that wasn't today.
08:42Thank you Vinny, thank you, have a good night, bye bye.