Kompany on Bayern MUnich's 1-0 loss at Aston Villa

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Kompany on Bayern MUnich's 1-0 loss at Aston Villa  02/10/2024  uefa24  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.

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