Bayern Munich manager Vincent Kompany has urged his players to deliver a winning performance if the leaders of the Bundesliga are opposite Freiburg on Saturday.
The Kompany team had a 3-0 defeat halfway through the week against Feyenoord in the Champions League, a result that reduced their chances in the top eight in the competition phase and securing an automatic place in the last sixteen.
But the Bavaria are in its own country in excellent form and are four points ahead of the German top class, with title defender Bayer Leverkusen in second place.
And the Belgian tactician has good hope that his team can build on this weekend at that momentum.
“It's good that we play again so quickly,” said Kompany prior to their return to the Bundesliga.
“It is something we hoped for. We have lost that match, that is a fact. I think it is important if you want to be at the very top to work hard. Hopefully the answer will come and that is Like this.” the most important thing. “
Their number of 45 points is currently their best in the competition in eight years and their 56 goals in 18 games have only been surpassed by one team in the history of the Bundesliga: Bayern himself during the 2021-2022 season, when they have another one goal scored. .
Moreover, they have not lost any of their last seventeen Bundesliga matches against Freiburg, in which they won twelve games during that period and four draws.
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However, they will have to do without the suspended Konrad LAIMER for the competition, while fellow defender Alphonso Davies will have to miss a longer time-out because of a muscle injury.
Wing defender Davies played this season in sixteen of the eighteen league games for Bayern and has a goal and two assists in his pocket.
Due to the defeat against the Dutch Feyenoord, Bayern is in 15th place with only 12 points from seven games in the Champions League.
The sixteen teams below the top eight of the Champions League go into a play-off to qualify for the last sixteen of the competition.
Kompany added that his players were dedicated to the goal of the season, despite their loss halfway through the week: winning titles.
“If you want to win titles, you have to be there every moment. But it is unusual in a season in which you go after titles not to see things.”
happen, “he said.“It is the decisive moments that you have to be there, and those moments will come.
“We have lost, that's right. But the boys have shown full commitment so far. We want to keep seeing that,” he said.
While Bayer makes the trip to Freiburg, their closest competitor Leverkusen will be at RB Leipzig on the same day to reduce the gap with the leaders.
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