Overview
- Bayern won 2-1 at SV Elversberg with goals from Lennart Karl and Harry Kane after Maurice Krattenmacher had briefly equalised.
- The manager said the team were “a step too slow mentally” early on and that a poor first half featured missed big chances and ineffective counter-pressing.
- Kompany credited Elversberg’s bravery and technical play and praised the home crowd’s reception as a reminder that promoted sides can take points off top teams.
- The match shifted after Kompany’s around-65th-minute substitutions bringing on Joshua Kimmich, Alphonso Davies, Luis Díaz and Jamal Musiala, which he said helped turn the game.
- With the club still unbeaten, Kompany framed rotation as ‘competition’ to manage a condensed schedule and said the result underlines the need for more consistent full-match performances ahead of the next Bundesliga fixture.