Vincent Kompany called Bayern Munich’s 5-1 opening-day win over VfB Stuttgart a deserved result after a match he said began very badly for his team. Bayern still walked away with three points from the start of the 2026/27 Bundesliga season, and the scoreline reflected how quickly the game swung once Bayern settled.
That is why the result is drawing attention now. Bayern opened the league campaign with five different goalscorers, a spread of scorers that underlined how many ways they found to break Stuttgart down. Dayot Upamecano, Michael Olise, Josha Vagnoman with an own goal, Luis Díaz and Aleksandar Pavlović all featured on the scoresheet, while Harry Kane did not score.
Kompany said the opening stages were difficult because Stuttgart were physically strong and dangerous in attack. Even so, he said Bayern stayed calm, kept going and kept creating more chances. That change mattered more than the final margin alone suggests. A 5-1 win can look like control from the start, but his account points to a game that had to be worked into shape rather than simply taken over immediately.
The own goal by Vagnoman fit that pattern. It was not just a lucky break sitting apart from the rest of the performance. It came inside a match in which Bayern kept forcing problems until the chances became too many to contain, and the goals from Upamecano, Olise, Díaz and Pavlović showed that the pressure did not depend on one outlet. For Kompany, that is why the win counted as deserved rather than merely comfortable.
The opening weekend gives Bayern the first three points of the new Bundesliga season and a clean early signal of depth in front of goal. The unanswered piece is how much of this performance was the result of Bayern adjusting after that rough start, because Kompany’s description suggests the decisive shift was not the score itself but the way Bayern kept building until Stuttgart could not keep up.
