In the second matchday of the Champions League group stage, Bayern Munich drew 3-3 at home against Viking. After the match, Bayern Munich's sporting director Max Eberl spoke to media in the mixed zone, discussing the team's recurring mistakes, Olise's red card, and upcoming matches against Leipzig and Arsenal.

Max Eberl, this is the craziest match we've had this season so far.

It was completely unnecessary. I'm standing here again, just like after the Augsburg match, and we're basically making the same mistakes all over again. We put ourselves in a difficult position from the start. We already discussed this, knew they would try to press us. But we conceded from a corner kick anyway, and then failed to defend properly during the corner, leaving us behind early again. It's very frustrating.

Then, just like against Augsburg, we attack and get hit on the counter. The flow of the match was almost identical. It was frustrating against Augsburg, and today it's even more frustrating because we made more mistakes. We went 3-2 up after turning it around. But then, because of a stupid second yellow card that resulted in a red, we played with ten men. Even with one man down, some players didn't get up after falling. This sequence of errors is too much. With so many mistakes, you can't win a match, not even in Stavanger.

Did you perhaps underestimate Viking?

I don't think so. But we are making far too many mistakes right now. This is not the standard our team should be playing at. The team should perform better, but we haven't been able to show that on the pitch. I'm not saying we're not committed or that we're not creating scoring chances. But conceding two goals against Augsburg and three against Viking clearly shows the problem.

In the first half, many of your attacks came through the middle. After the substitutions in the second half, suddenly there were more attacks down the wings and more shots. There was none of that in the first half.

You're talking about attack; I'm talking about defense. We have the ability and chances to score, whether attacking through the middle or down the wing. In the first half, Kane headed the ball directly into the goalkeeper's arms from three meters.

We will create chances, and we will score goals. But we don't need to put ourselves under so much pressure beforehand.

However, starting this season, the second yellow card resulting in a red can also be reviewed.

I believe that was a second yellow leading to a red. One yellow for holding, another for throwing the ball at an opponent's face. But we allowed ourselves to be provoked, and he achieved his goal—getting a player sent off.

How will you handle Michael Olise? Will he be fined?

We'll handle it calmly.

Max, you just mentioned again the team's standards and the defensive issues. How will you solve this? Is it a matter of ability, or is the team simply not performing at the expected level right now?

I'm talking about defensive performance, not the defenders themselves. But as I said, you all saw the goals we conceded. First, a set piece. We were pressed in the first minute. We knew what would happen—they'd send the ball in. If you can't play it forward, then just kick it out for a throw-in instead of trying to dribble. As a result, you give the opponent a corner kick. It can happen, but it's happening too often right now. When it happens that frequently, eventually you can't just call it bad luck; it's a concentration issue.

And when we're desperately trying to make it 1-1, to equalize, sorry, we can't get caught on the counter like that in Stavanger. An opponent starting from his own area, running one-on-one toward our goal. That should never happen to us. We're making too many mistakes. It's not about the back line itself, but about concentration and whether you're willing to fulfill your responsibilities.

When we attack, not everyone needs to be involved in building the attack. Some need to stay alert to make sure we don't get caught on the counter.

Next, on paper, you'll face stronger opponents. How do you plan to approach the next few weeks, especially the Arsenal match without Michael Olise?

Yes, but first we have to face RB Leipzig. That's the kind of difficult match you just mentioned. We'll try to do much better. The beautiful thing about football is that today you experience a setback because we certainly didn't expect this match to end in a draw.

But four days later, you have a match against Leipzig where you can do many things better and make up for it. So we have to look forward.

One last quick question—Sabiri was brought on and then taken off again. Was that for tactical reasons or because of injury?

Purely tactical reasons, purely tactical reasons.

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