Coach: ‘A huge compliment to the team’

Champions Bayern showed great morale and desire to come back from 2-0 down and beat VfL Wolfsburg 4-2, climbing seven places in the standings to fourth in the process. Coach Jürgen Klinsmann was understandably delighted with his side’s performance: “A huge compliment to the team for turning the match around and exploiting their quality to get the result."

Reaction to Bayern v Wolfsburg

Jürgen Klinsmann: “We spent a lot of time preparing for Wolfsburg. I told the team we had a lot of hard work ahead of us, and that we’d need to be alert from the very first minute. But we weren’t. We thought it would be easier, and then suddenly we were two goals down. That meant we had even more work to do in coming from behind. A huge compliment to the team for turning the match around and exploiting their quality to get the result. That wasn’t a match for the faint-hearted."

Mark van Bommel: “We started well but our attacking play was too scrappy. We started taking too many risks and left gaps at the back. Wolfsburg began with a deep-lying formation, but then they scored twice. We achieved a lot in the second half with our determination and fighting spirit, which basically wouldn’t have been necessary if we’d started better. I was delighted about my equaliser, as I’ve not scored for Bayern for a while."

Christian Lell: “There was a lot riding on today’s game. Losing would have been a catastrophe. But we showed lots of morale and turned it round – and you can only do that as a team, if you’re prepared to look at yourself and say: no more messing about. That’s what we did at half-time.“

Felix Magath: “Nothing has changed: Wolfsburg are incapable of winning in Munich. It looked as though it might be different up to half-time, I still had hopes. But we had too much fear to win the game. We were too passive and let Munich back into the match, and you’ll always be punished for that. At the end of the day, it’s about quality. We had our chances, although I’m not going to criticise my team. Bayern simply have the quality and took their chances."