Juventus vs Bayern Munich Results: Conte Impressed by Bayern's Superiority and Class; Heynckes Hails Performance

Apr 11, 2013 12:24 AM EDT

Bayern Munich manager Jupp Heynckes hailed his side's second half performance while Juventus boss Antonio Conte felt the better team won.

Bayern Munich completed a 4-0 aggregate victory over Juve with another classy 2-0 win in the second leg in Turin, thanks to goals from Mario Mandzukic and Claudio Pizarro.

"It's not easy for players to be fully focused on a game after you've won the league just four days before," Heynckes said. That appeared to be the case in the first 20 minutes when we often lost possession too easily and weren't fluent in our game going forward, but slowly we took control of the match and improved a lot in the second half. In the end we fully deserved the win.

"We discussed a few tactical matters at halftime. The tactical organisation had to improve and that's what happened in the second half.

"We have received a lot of praise in the last few weeks. The positive aspect of this is that we recognised the praise but never let it influence our performances. We are having a very good season with some fantastic displays.

"We are Bundesliga champions, but we still have other goals. We will see if we are on the same level as Madrid or Barcelona."

Conte was not too disappointed with the end result because he knew Juve were up against arguably the best side in the world at the moment.

"We have a lot of work to do, we already knew that," Conte said. "In any case, I congratulated the players because what we have done in the last 18 months is amazing.

"Nobody likes to lose, but you have to admit it when you face a team that is so stronger than you. They have played two finals in the last three years, so we knew there was a big gap between them and us.

"Bayern are really strong, individually and collectively, they can do wonderful things and they fight for every ball. It's tough to play against them and we did everything we could.

"We just have to admit they're better than us. I don't think we could have done anything more and the way the fans reacted at the end proves it. Bayern will be one of the best teams in Europe for many years to come."

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