Borussia Dortmund suffered a massive setback in being eliminated from the Champions League by Atalanta earlier this week and Bayern Munich head coach Vincent Kompany knows that BVB will be focused on trying to stay alive in the Bundesliga.<\/p>\n
A loss to Bayern Munich would put Borussia Dortmund 11 points behind the Bavarians and likely ice the competition in favor of Bayern Munich.<\/p>\n
\u201cI expect Dortmund to put on the pressure and keep the game wide open with lots of energy \u2013 they\u2019re capable of that, they have the ability to really push. But whether that will decide the game tomorrow, I don\u2019t know. From our perspective, things are clearer: we will definitely give it our all, I can say that right now. Everything else depends on the opponent. Whether they sit back defensively or push forward \u2013 we know what our priorities will be. We\u2019re playing against a top team, it won\u2019t be easy for us,\u201d Kompany said (as captured by @iMiaSanMia<\/a>). \u201cIt\u2019s a Klassiker. It has its importance; in the moments of top matches, we should make it as big as it is. I think that\u2019s good. It\u2019s important for the Bundesliga that we have a top match tomorrow \u2013 both teams shouldn\u2019t be afraid. I us to say we want to beat Dortmund. And Dortmund should think similarly; that\u2019s what makes it so important, that\u2019s how it should be.\u201d<\/p>\n Kompany understands that there could be big reaction from BVB after being eliminated from the Champions League, but how a team responds is always tough to gauge after such a disappointment.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was a setback. You can never know how they will react to that. Mentally, it always has an effect; it can go either way. What we can control is how we start the game. We had healthy energy in training, which I love; we had a very good week. We did everything right in training \u2013 now we want to continue like that in the game tomorrow,\u201d Kompany said.<\/p>\n Kompany, though, has his own problems to deal with aside of planning to face Borussia Dortmund. Michael Olise, Aleksandar Pavlovi\u0107, Kim Min-jae, Hiroki It\u014d, Manuel Neuer, Konrad Laimer, and Alphonso Davies are all dealing with one ailment or another. For Kompany, it is all about staying patient.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have a medical meeting after this press conference. I\u2019ll get the last information about the players. At the moment things are looking good. Maybe not everyone will be able to start against Dortmund. But we have the opportunity to line up with a very strong team. I\u2019ll get the final details in the next half hour at our medical meeting,\u201d Kompany said. \u201cKonny (Laimer) has been training all week. And Phonzy (Davies) has been running; he\u2019s also doing well, he\u2019ll be there for the important month of March. We\u2019ll see next week.<\/p>\n \u201cThings are looking good for Manu (Neuer). We thought he\u2019d be out for longer. He might train with us today. Then we\u2019ll have to see. I want to talk to him again. Otherwise, Jonas Urbig will play. He did well.\u201d<\/p>\n If you are looking for more Bayern Munich and German national team coverage, check out the latest episodes of Bavarian Podcast Works, which you can get on Acast<\/a>, Spotify<\/a>, Apple<\/a>, or any leading podcast distributor\u2026 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Borussia Dortmund suffered a massive setback in being eliminated from the Champions League by Atalanta earlier this week…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[67106,14412,22971,49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-505037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-bayern-munich-coaches","tag-bayern-munich-bundesliga","tag-bayern-munich-injuries","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}