'The better team won' - Kompany congratulates Arsenal's 'purposeful' performance - video Dailymotion

Bayern boss Vincent Kompany admits that Arsenal were the better team in his side's 3-1 defeat on Wednesday.

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00:00First of all, I have to congratulate the opponent, Arsenal, and I think in the end

00:08a deserved win for them. The first half felt like we were, it felt to me like we could

00:15edge it. The first half, you can't keep a team like Arsenal without threat for an entire

00:24game, but I felt that we had many reasons to go back in a half-time and think if we come

00:34out second half and we improve a few things, we can edge it and we can bring it home. But

00:39it didn't happen and they came out with more purpose, more sharpness on the simple things

00:49in the game. Of course, they've always got the set place to shift momentum, they use

00:53it also very well to control the momentum of a game. But at the same time, in the things

01:00we did better in the first half, we just allowed them to gain control of too many phases of play.