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"Bayern Munich head coach Vincent Kompany dubbed the upcoming Champions League quarter-final clash against Real Madrid as the "most difficult game you can have in Europe" but insisted his players were '100 percent focused', speaking at a pre-match press conference on Tuesday. "For me, that’s the key: that tomorrow we have total focus on what is naturally the most difficult game you can have in Europe, and that we show through our performance what we are capable of," Kompany said. "Not thinking, 'it was important, we tried today, but it didn’t work'. No, 100% focus on how to win and how we want to win, and trying everything to achieve it," he added. Kompany also provided an update on striker Harry Kane, who has returned to training following an ankle injury. "This is now his second training session; it was important for us that he has trained a lot during this period," Kompany said. "I don’t think there has really been any loss of rhythm." "We’ll wait until tomorrow, when we receive the final information, then we will make a decision. But he is back," he added. "We have a good squad to start this knockout phase." Midfielder Joshua Kimmich described the tie as a meeting of Europe’s elite, while acknowledging Bayern’s recent struggles against Madrid. "We have to be honest and say that the recent matches haven’t been very positive for us. Unfortunately, we’ve always been eliminated here," Kimmich said. "As I said before, the circumstances were always a bit different. We often didn’t have our full squad available, and I think the other three times we played, the second leg was here, which makes the atmosphere very special," he added. Bayern enter the match in strong form, leading the Bundesliga by nine points and unbeaten in 13 matches, including a 10–2 aggregate win over Atalanta in the round of 16. The return leg will be played in May at the Allianz Arena in Munich."
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