DThe evening was already well advanced and Vincent Kompany had answered all the questions when he took the floor again: “We haven’t talked about Cologne yet,” said the Belgian coach of FC Bayern, who was noticeably keen to acknowledge not only his own team’s performance but also the opponent’s performance. He praised the 1. FC Köln team as “unpleasant from start to finish.” His coach Lukas Kwasniok acknowledged the compliment with satisfaction. The backing of his renowned colleague is just right for him, as he is encountering “a negative mood that has been artificially created from outside” in Cologne, as he said on Wednesday evening.
