Bayern Munich boss Vincent Kompany had a obvious message for his avid gamers following their shock 2-1 defeat away at Mainz, which was their first Bundesliga loss of the season.
Lee Jae-Sung struck twice both aspect of half of-time, and despite Leroy Sane decreasing the deficit stupid on, Bo Henriksen’s aspect had been ready to attend on for a large triumph.
Mainz possess now acquired four of their last five Bundesliga home video games towards Bayern. Since the starting up of the 2020-21 campaign, no assorted aspect has acquired more towards them.
It moreover marks Kompany’s first league defeat since taking the reins on the Allianz Stadium, having most intelligent lost in the Champions League and DFB-Pokal in his debut season.
And Bayern struggled on the Mewa Arena, despite changing into the suitable workforce to ranking in all of their 14 Bundesliga video games to date this season.
Kompany’s aspect managed an expected dreams (xG) total of 1.forty eight from their 13 efforts, though they had appropriate one heading in the suitable route, which came from Sane’s strike stupid on.
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On the encourage of feeling pissed off at seeing his stride ended, Kompany insisted there was no time to dwell on the end result, before web hosting RB Leipzig in their final game of 2024.
“We performed towards a workforce with a likelihood of existence and spirit, they had been ready to fight for every moment,” Kompany stated put up-game.
“From our aspect, there was no longer an absence of fighting. We did that to the suitable of our capability. Today we had been appropriate no longer at our most intelligent.
“This game, we can’t play it from now on, it’s accomplished. We’ll use it to create a fireplace for subsequent week. That’s the suitable manner to give an acknowledge.
“We are able to’t find this game in Mainz this One year, nonetheless at some point soon, we’re taking a watch forward to it.”
The clash with Leipzig is adopted by a three-week damage from league action, as the Bundesliga hits pause except mid-January.
Bayern are easy top of the Bundesliga table, nonetheless noticed their lead reduced to four points on Saturday after champions Bayer Leverkusen beat Augsburg 2-0.
