Despite the ebbs and flows of their 4-2 Club World Cup victory over Flamengo on Sunday, Bayern Munich coach Vincent Kompany praised his team’s unwavering attacking threat.
The Germans once again had a two-goal lead at 3-1, but the Brazilian club managed to keep the game alive on both occasions.
Former Manchester City captain Kompany was particularly impressed with how his team kept staying in the game despite his team’s resilience.
We always stay dangerous, he said to reporters, “I think that’s the key part of the game for me, which always remains a key part of the game.”
“Whether we were defending or whether we had the ball was irrelevant. If we could control the ball, we would always be dangerous. But he continued, “we were always on the counter in the situations where we appeared to be a team that could score at any time.”
“I believed we maintained our composure until we scored the goals just to relieve some pressure,” he said. The fans are a significant component of the game when these teams play. Similar to Boca, the two games are. For us, they play away games. And we must adapt and find a winning strategy, he said.
Kompany argued that a game’s ability to regain control of its momentum when an opponent is growing stronger is difficult to teach.
Better players,
It’s actually the hardest thing to coach, to put it mildly. I’ve also played professionally. You take responsibility at this time. No matter how talented your coach is, you must do it.
The key is to remain calm, they say. The players did it, as did the experience, but it’s also something we discuss.
“We can’t lose the game in five minutes because we had a bad period” or because we thought it was a ridiculous penalty,” we said.
Filipe Luis, the coach of the Flamengos, acknowledged that Bayern had no plans for his team.
“They put a lot of pressure on you,” they said. Eight or ten players are rushing at you. He claimed that they deserved to win.
Our plan did succeed because we applied pressure and created chances for goals, but they were better than us because we are playing against the elite, he said.
Luis again inquired about the quality disparity between the top European clubs and South American clubs, noting that the players’ transfer costs were a significant factor.
The best player in the world would have been Vinicius Jr. if he had not left for Real Madrid. They (South American players) are affluent in the elite, which is where they are. They are high-quality teams, he said, and if we had won today and the tournament, it would not change that fact.
