FC Bayern: Vincent Kompany offers an replace on Harry Kane and explains the plan towards Real Madrid | EUROtoday

Easter Monday was properly deliberate. At lunchtime, the FC Bayern workforce skilled once more in Munich, then traveled by aircraft to Madrid. After arriving within the Spanish metropolis within the night, coach Vincent Kompany and midfielder Joshua Kimmich went to the Estadio Bernabéu for a press convention.

Tuesday (9 p.m., Amazon Prime Video) the German soccer document champions will play towards the “Royal” within the first leg of the quarter-finals of the Champions League. For many followers and consultants it’s an anticipated finale. “For me they are the biggest clubs in the world. This is a very special game,” mentioned Kimmich.

Star striker Harry Kane is again within the squad after ankle issues. “We’ll wait until tomorrow. When we get the latest information, we’ll decide,” Kompany mentioned Monday night. He would not assume Kane’s rhythm is disturbed.

For Kompany, the showdown with star striker Kylian Mbappé’s workforce is his one hundredth aggressive sport as Bayern coach. The sovereign Bundesliga leaders are assured earlier than the primary leg. You can beat any opponent, mentioned younger star Lennart Karl after his current successes.

For coach Kompany and his workforce, this quarter-final is a take a look at of maturity. Real’s offensive gamers round Vinícius Júnior generally provoke and generally cleverly let themselves go relying on the state of affairs – how do you cope with that?

“We try to put our stamp on every game,” mentioned Kimmich. “Real is very dangerous in many situations, you have to adapt the game. We want to believe in our strengths and bring them onto the pitch. Real have a lot of quality, we want to tackle it as a collective.” He had usually traveled to Madrid previously when many gamers have been lacking. “That’s not the case this time.” The ambiance and the viewers in Madrid are very particular.

He visited the stadium as a baby and was impressed. “If you want to win against Real, you have to be at a high level mentally and tactically,” mentioned Kimmich. He is absolutely trying ahead to the sport. “We train for games like this every day.” Not every part will likely be determined after the primary leg. “We have a lot of individual quality.”

Real Madrid are threatened with yellow suspensions

Several professionals from the Spanish document champions could possibly be banned from the second leg on April fifteenth within the Munich Arena in the event that they obtain a yellow card within the first leg: Kylian Mbappé, Vinícius Junior, Jude Bellingham, Aurélien Tchouaméni, Dean Huijsen and Álvaro Carreras.

If Bayern’s Dayot Upamecano or Konrad Laimer obtained a yellow card on the Bernabéu Stadium, they might be banned for the second leg in Munich.

“It’s the details that decide this game,” mentioned Kompany. “It is perhaps the most difficult game you can play away from home in this competition.”

Is it additionally a childhood dream for him to compete right here? How massive does the sport really feel to him? After all, Bayern coaches are measured by these massive video games. “I just have this total focus,” Kompany replied. “It’s the most difficult game in Europe. Our focus is on showing what we can do. I just want us to win and the team not be afraid.”

In addition to Kane, offensive star Jamal Musiala and full-back Alphonso Davies, who have been lacking from Bayern for a very long time, are additionally working their manner again. But it is not sufficient for them for 90 minutes, mentioned sports activities director Max Eberl on Monday afternoon. But they’ve “more and more minutes in the tank, and accordingly the time will come”.

In his opinion, one of many largest risks towards Real is being blinded by their very own robust moments similar to scoring alternatives. “At Real Madrid it’s exactly that one moment when they clear an emergency situation and suddenly you have a one-on-one against (Kylian) Mbappé or against Vini Jr. That’s what we have to be very careful about, so that we don’t neglect things in our euphoria that we’ve done something good,” mentioned Eberl.

Real coach Álvaro Arbeloa exuded confidence on Monday. He assured that elimination was not a difficulty for him and his gamers: “We are not thinking about being eliminated in this round. For us there is only one goal: to beat Bayern. That’s what we’re concentrating on and that’s what we believe in.” On Tuesday they wish to give themselves and the followers “a big champions night”.

Julien Wolff is an editor on the Sports Competence Center. He reviews for WORLD for years about FC Bayern and the nationwide workforce. He has been in Madrid since Easter Monday and will likely be on the stadium on Tuesday night.