The Bavarian giants’ manager expressed his delight after a narrow win, but was disappointed as Franck Ribery suffered a slight muscular injury
Bayern Munich coach Jupp Heynckes has praised his team after they beat Lille 1-0 in their UEFA Champions League group stage game on Tuesday, and feels that Der FCB used their last European outing to good effect. The German boss
was glad after the Bundesliga outfit secured crucial three points from the away clash.
Thomas Muller scored the only goal of the game from the penalty-kick to help his side win the match. Bayern are now level on points with http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Valencia-c40863 and BATE Borisov, but have an inferior goal difference in Group F. Moreover, the
veteran trainer stated that European football is different to that of domestic league.
The tactician further added that Die Roten failed to impress in Europe’s Premier club competition the last few times, but did enough to get a good result in http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/France-c2899. He said the French outfit were not at their best, and claimed
there were only a few clear-cut chances for both teams.
Die Bayern boss claimed that he had to take Franck Ribery off due to injury. He revealed that it is really hard to cope without such an instrumental player.
"The Champions League is a different competition to that of the Bundesliga. We did not play well in recent weeks but we did the http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Job-c18684 against a good Lille side, who had a day off and more. There were few opportunities for both sides.
At half time, I had to substitute Franck Ribery, who had a small muscular problem. And it is difficult to manage without such a player,” he was quoted as saying in an interview.
"It was important to win. It was not the best match, but it was well controlled until the end. It's good for the confidence,” he stated.
Heynckes maintained that they displayed that FC Hollywood have the quality required for Champions League format. Bayern have strengthened their case to qualify for the knockout round. He commended the defenders and confirmed that
Ribery has sustained a thigh injury.
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