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Bayern coach Kompany not allowing side to dwell on Champions League exit

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Bayern Munich coach Vincent Kompany will not allow his players to feel ⁠sorry for themselves after Wednesday's Champions League semi-final exit to Paris St Germain and has urged them to finish ‌the season strong with the German Cup still up for grabs.

[p]The Bavarians ‌have won the Bundesliga and reached the German Cup final, but ‌their 1-1 draw with [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/psg/CjhkPw0k/"]PSG[/a] in Munich saw them eliminated from ‌Europe's elite club competition 6-5 on aggregate.[/p][p][b]"It is normal ‌to be disappointed, it was such a big goal, and it cost a lot of energy," [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/kompany-vincent/K6A2elS9/"]Kompany[/a] told a press conference on Friday. "But from the ‌next day, it is only about the ⁠future.[/b][/p][p][b]"My role is to project ‌that and how we must react."[/b][/p][image alt="Bayern - PSG second leg stats" id="1967d45e-9a20-4c39-8018-cf0ca19a691e" credit-line="Opta by StatsPerform" guid="e2dc1217-a4af-4bb0-bfff-683fcd7619f3" original-width="1080" original-height="1080" /][p]Kompany was criticised for playing too ​high a line and leaving gaps at the back in the two matches against PSG.[/p][p][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/bayern-munich/nVp0wiqd/"]Bayern[/a] have conceded 12 ​goals in their last four games in all competitions, but the Belgian said he would not change the way his team ⁠plays as long ​as they are scoring more goals than the opposition.[/p][p]Bayern have shattered the record for most goals scored in a Bundesliga season with 116 so far and two matches remaining. The previous record ‌was 101 set in 1971/72.[/p][p][b]"We are very pragmatic people in Belgium. If the goal difference (in the Bundesliga) is an all-time record of 81, then you have done quite a lot so as not to lose matches," Kompany said.[/b][/p][p][b]"We win the games, and the goal difference shows that we do it with a great difference against our opponents."[/b][/p][embed guid="16a69e5e-1053-481e-baa8-3ccde1ca4256" url="https://x.com/FCBayernEN/status/2052671835091636494" social-type="twitter" /][p]Bayern travel to struggling [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/wolfsburg/nwkTahLL/"]VfL Wolfsburg[/a] on Saturday in the penultimate match of the Bundesliga season ‌before wrapping up their league campaign against Cologne a week ​later.[/p][p]They then travel to Berlin to face [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/vfb-stuttgart/nJQmYp1B/"]VfB Stuttgart[/a] ‌in the German Cup final on May 23rd.[/p][p]Kompany said it was important for the side to show they have moved on from the Champions League exit.[/p][p]"We want to show that this is already in the past and it is about ⁠what we can still ⁠achieve, not only in the ‌next weeks but beyond," he added.[/p][p][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/game/soccer/bayern-munich-nVp0wiqd/wolfsburg-nwkTahLL/?mid=fmc5MPPP"]Follow their trip to Wolfsburg with Flashscore.[/a][/p]

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