Kompany hits back at Bayern critics after breaking Champions League record

Vincent Kompany vowed to continue proving his critics wrong after Bayern Munich romped to a record-breaking 9-2 victory in the Champions League.

Manchester City legend Kompany watched his side hammer Croatian outfit Dinamo Zagreb on Tuesday, with England captain Harry Kane scoring four at the Allianz Arena. Bayern's nine-goal haul was the most scored by a single team in a Champions League match, also making it four wins out of four under new boss Kompany.

Despite leading Burnley to relegation last term after a dominant season in the Championship, Bayern saw enough in Kompany to give him the job after months of searching for Thomas Tuchel's successor. The Belgian's appointment led to criticism, with many believing that he didn't possess the managerial pedigree to take charge of a club like Bayern.

Results so far, however, have proven the naysayers wrong and Kompany insists that he's used to enjoying success against the odds. "I'll tell you something in a quick way just to prove a point," the former City defender said post-match, having been asked about critics who claimed that the job was 'too big' for him.

"I was born in Brussels, my dad was a refugee who came from Congo. What are my chances of even playing in the Premier League, winning something as a player, playing for the national team? The odds were 0.000 something.

"Now I'm a coach, do you just stop believing in yourself and what you can achieve because of what other people say? The mentality is to keep going and in the end if you fail, you fail [and] if you succeed, you succeed. But you can always become better.

"Online you can always find stuff [criticism] so I really don't take it personal. What am I supposed to do? Stop because of what other people think? Let's encourage people to succeed and break barriers."

Bayern failed to win a trophy for the first time in 12 years last season, as they surrendered the Bundesliga title to Bayer Leverkusen. In February, the German giants agreed to part ways with Tuchel at the end of the campaign, a decision which became unpopular with fans after Bayern's form picked up in the spring and they reached the Champions League semi-finals.

Kompany's men have so far beaten Wolfsburg, Freiburg, Holstein Kiel and Zagreb, scoring 20 goals in the process. Bigger tests loom, though, with Leverkusen being their next home league game and a trip to Aston Villa on the horizon for their second Champions League fixture.