greg . 2025-06-30 06:00:04

Bayern Munich coach Vincent Kompany praises side's relentless attacking threat

Bayern Munich coach Vincent Kompany praised his squad's relentless attacking threat regardless the ebbs and flows of their 4-2 Club World Cup victory over Flamengo On Sunday.

The German side led 2-0 and again had a two-strike advantage at 3-1 but on pair occasions the Brazilian club found a way to keep the contest alive.

While pleased with that resilience from his squad, former Manchester City captain Kompany was particularly impressed with the way his squad never drifted out of the fixture.

"I think the key part of the fixture for me, which always remains a key part of the fixture, is we always stayed threatening," he told reporters.

"It didn't matter if we were retaining or if we had the ball.

I think if we had the ball we were always threatening.

But even when we defended, later on the counter in the moments we looked like a squad that could result at any time," he added.

"I thought we stayed steady and later we scored the goals at the right time sole to take the pressure off a little bit.

Playing versus these teams, the supporters are a big part of the fixture.

The Boca fixture is very similar.

They feel like away matches for us.

And we have to adapt and find a way to victory," he said.

Kompany said that ability to regain control of a fixture when an opponent is building drive, is an element of the fixture that is tough to teach.

Fixture statsStatsPerform'Better stars' "It's the hardest thing to coach, it really is.

I've been a athlete myself.

In these moments you take responsibility.

It doesn't matter how good your coach is, it doesn't matter anything, you have to.

"And the main thing is you have to stay steady.

It's something that the stars did, it's the experience as well, but it's also something we talk over.

"We can't defeat the fixture in five minutes since we had a bad period or since we considered it was a silly spotkick.

"Flamengo coach Filipe Luis accepted that his squad were given no respite by Bayern.

"The pressure they put on you is immense.

They come at you with eight, 10 stars.

They deserved to victory," he said.

"Our plan did work and we were able to apply pressure and create strike netting opportunities but they were better than us, we're playing versus the soccer elite," he said.

Asked again over the quality gap between South American clubs and the top European sides, Luis noted that the economic realities around the move of stars was a big element.

"If Vinicius Jr had never left for Real Madrid, we would have the best athlete in the world.

They (South American stars) want to be in the elite and that's where they are.

Had we won this day and the tournament, it would never change the reality - they're high quality teams," he said.

"We have multiple Brazilian stars in our teams but they (the European teams) have the best ones.

They have better stars, that's a fact.

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