Vincent Kompany: Ouליsse was 100% at fault, but we shouldn't make excuses
Vincent Kompany says he accepts responsibility for his players' mistakes and for the draw against Viking.
According to "Verzeh Se", Bayern Munich met this team on Tuesday night in the framework of the second week of the group stage of the European Champions League competition at the home stadium of Wikkeng, and in an interesting and goal-filled game, it was stopped with the result of 3-3, to return home with only one point from this game and hope for the upcoming matches.
A few minutes ago, the company appeared at the press conference after this game and talked to reporters.
Michael Ulysses' red card: "He knows he made a mistake. You can see that he is sorry for what happened and that he is sorry for letting the team down. This is completely understandable and things like this happen. Today was neither the final nor the semi-final, but these are the moments that can have a decisive effect on a season. I told him that the opponent was smarter than him.
When you are so much better than your opponent, sometimes you just have to play your game and focus on being better than the other team instead of getting involved in unnecessary situations. Now we can't change anything. I hope that in the future we will be able to look at this incident with the eyes of the moment that we have learned from it. Michael is a player that opponents will always try to provoke, but that is no excuse. It is 100% his own fault. He knows this too. When you make individual decisions like that, you can't say you deserved to win, although I think we didn't play a bad game. "We didn't deserve to win because we made mistakes that shouldn't have happened."
About the draw: "This result was entirely our fault. Just like the game at the weekend, we completely dominated the game. There are definitely aspects of our performance that we can take positives from and the overall quality of our play was not too bad. But we still make mistakes due to lack of concentration and do not make smart decisions in such moments. Against Augsburg, we scored after only eight seconds; Today, this happened after a minute and a half.
In that situation, we didn't necessarily have to pass the ball from the back of the field after the corner. Maybe we could have sent the ball high. We knew this ourselves, but a bit of overconfidence played a role in this decision. At the moment, we feel that every chance that the opponents get will turn into goals. But this cannot be an excuse, because we ourselves create these situations for our opponents. Ulysse's second yellow card was clearly a stupid mistake. We also discussed this issue with him quite clearly.
However, what is important to me is that I don't see any signs of lack of energy in my team. The players work hard and are very focused mentally. However, we cannot afford to make such mistakes. Otherwise, it becomes difficult to win matches, even when you're clearly the better team on the field and you may have given a decent performance overall. But when you make those individual mistakes that we make, naturally the final picture will be completely different."
Responsibility for the result: "As a head coach, the responsibility is always on you. I also accept responsibility for the individual mistakes of my players."
Two draws in a row: “In these two games against Augsburg and Viking, the energy of the team was good, we played fast football and created a lot of chances. But the problem is the opportunities we give to the opponents. In my opinion, these conditions are not enough to say that we deserved to win. We have to react on the field and this is the most important issue."