Soccer Football - Champions League - FC Barcelona v Bayern Munich - Estadi Olimpic Lluis Companys, Barcelona, Spain - October 23, 2024 Bayern Munich coach Vincent Kompany talks to Bayern Musiala and Leroy Sane REUTERS/Albert Gea
BARCELONA (Reuters) - Bayern Munich manager Vincent Kompany said his team paid the price for missed opportunities when they suffered a 4-1 loss at Barcelona in the Champions League on Wednesday, their second consecutive defeat in the competition.
Kompany said his side not been able to make the most of the chances they created after Harry Kane's volley cancelled out Raphinha's opener and instead left open the door for Barca to go ahead again and kill off the game with quick counter-attacks.
"I think maybe one very, very simple analysis I can make is when you have control of a game and you have so much possession in a place like today against a team like we played today, you have to use the opportunity to take the momentum away from the opposition team," Kompany told a press conference.
"The way it went in the start of the first half is what we thought we could achieve in this game. It was where it felt like we could edge this game. We felt like this could turn for us.
"But in key moments we got outdone and for that reason the result is fairly, fairly heavy. We played against a good team but we have the ambition to win these games so today we know we have to learn from this game so we are stronger going forward."
Bayern are 23rd in the Champions League standings on three points after three games.
(Reporting by Fernando Kallas; editing by Clare Fallon)
