“It already has a value if the players who do not play so much, accelerate every day in training, always tear their ass open. And then there are when they are needed,” said Kimmich and conjured up the team spirit: “At the moment we all need. It is very important for us that everyone holds up the level every day in training.”
So far, this seems to work perfectly. For Kompany, his approach is also simply without an alternative. “If you look into the calendar and see the intensity, then we will have to rotate,” he said before the game in Limassol. Kompany knows what to expect immediately after the international break.
Starting with the Bundesliga top game against Borussia Dortmund on October 18, there are three intensive weeks with a total of seven games. One of them will be the away game in the Champions League at defending champion Paris Saint-Germain (November 4). At the end of the month the game follows at Arsenal (26th). “It gets really hectic,” said Kompany. After all, you have three games in six days.
Company wants to prepare his squad for this high load and also keep its top players fit – through rotation. “Protecting does not mean that you have to make a player totally out,” he said. It could also be that a player would be replaced. Exactly as he practiced it in the game against Pafos.
“Now it is also about showing how good you are when you get your chance,” said Kompany. “And hopefully we will have a little more clarity later in the season.” For the crucial season phase when it comes to “the prices”, the titles.
Ex-Bayern sports director Matthias Sammer sees Kompany and the Münchner sees the season on the right track after their flawless dream start. “Big compliments for Bavaria,” said Sammer at Prime Video and, with a view to the apparent lightness with which the Munich people are currently succeeded, almost philosophical: “Art is always in life, which looks easy to make it look easy. And they do that in perfection.”