Bayern Munich is not going to let accidents maintain them again as they go “full throttle” of their bid to regain the Bundesliga title, Vincent Kompany pledged forward of their journey to Augsburg.
With 65 factors from 27 video games, Bayern maintain a six-point benefit over defending champions Bayer Leverkusen.
They’ve received considered one of their final three Bundesliga matches, although, shedding to lowly Bochum and drawing at Union Berlin earlier than a slim 3-2 win over St Pauli final week.
They’re additionally more likely to be with out left-back Alphonso Davies and centre-back Dayot Upamecano for the remainder of the season, whereas fellow defender Hiroki Ito suffered a metatarsal fracture final week.
Regardless of these setbacks, Kompany has backed his aspect to remain the course of their seven remaining video games.
“We have now a number of choices for the full-back place. You too can get inventive. The vital factor is that now we have confidence and it doesn’t change the truth that now we have to go full throttle. We need to win,” Kompany mentioned of Bayern’s damage issues.
“In the course of the worldwide break, we had time to look forward. You consider the way you need to method these upcoming video games, however then we had three contemporary accidents. What I would like is for the lads to remain match after which we’ll get the outcomes.”
The Opta supercomputer at present assigns Bayern a 95% likelihood of securing the title, with Leverkusen given a 5% chance.
Kompany named defender Sacha Boey as a participant that might fill in. The 24-year-old has made 12 appearances for Bayern since arriving from Galatasaray final 12 months.
“Sacha is a participant who loves enjoying on the appropriate. He’s match and positively an possibility, and he’ll get his minutes within the coming weeks,” he mentioned.
“He was in place earlier than his damage and hopefully he’ll present his qualities once more. We have now six gamers who’ve usually performed at full-back. It’s vital that they keep match.”
Bayern have collected extra factors this season than that they had at this stage of any marketing campaign since 2017-18, once they had 66 factors after 27 matches.
Nevertheless, they’ve already conceded as many targets within the second half of the season as they did in the complete first half of the marketing campaign (13).
They’re now in peril of going 5 league video games and not using a clear sheet for the primary time below Kompany, whereas Augsburg – unbeaten in 11 Bundesliga video games – have solely conceded 4 league targets in 2025, the fewest in Europe’s prime 5 leagues.
After the Augsburg journey, Bayern host Serie A leaders Inter within the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final tie on Tuesday
