The Bundesliga side's head coach knows his team must get down and dirty in a bid to slow their recent slump
Niko Kovac said "maybe everything was a bit too easy" for Bayern Munich previously after the German giants' winless streak continued against Ajax in the Champions League.
Mats Hummels' early opener was cancelled out by Noussair Mazraoui as Bayern were surprisingly held to a 1-1 draw by the Dutch visitors on Tuesday.
Bundesliga holders Bayern have now gone three games without victory in all competitions, having started the season with seven successive wins.
"Nobody expected that. But that's football. When you fall, you always have the opportunity to get up," head coach Kovac told Sky Germany about Bayern's slump.
"Maybe everything was a bit too easy. Now we have to roll up our sleeves. I know what struck the clock, that we did not win three games and we need to focus on the essentials again. That's not what I imagined personally.
"Now we have to quickly show the face that made us so good in the first seven games."
Bayern were shocked by Hertha Berlin last week but the Bavarians made a flying start in the Group E clash – Hummels breaking the deadlock in just the fourth minute.
Ajax, however, responded midway through the first half via Mazraoui's fine strike and it proved to be enough to frustrate Bayern.
"That was certainly not a good game from us," Kovac said. "We did that very well in the first 15 minutes. Then we played negligently, won too few duels, every second ball was at the opponent.
"We simply played too many bad passes. We wanted too much, too fast. As a result, you build up the opponent and lose confidence. That was a winning point for us in the end. You have to see it that way."
Bayern star Thomas Muller added: "We certainly had a better phase this season. Our way of playing is in need of improvement.
"We have to stay tuned, something else does not help us. We have to sort the bones and fix everything on Saturday. In football you have to look forward."
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it was one of the worst performance by Bayern Munich, in the stating they played very fast and very well but after 15-20 minutes they came back to their sloppy game, Bayern was not able to attack properly and was bad in mid also and passing was horrible, nowdays Lewandowski has started holding ball well than before but he looks like midfielder not striker, defence was also open many times, there was no rythem in the game, with this kind of game I doubt Bayern will even be able to go beyond round of 16, I think Niko Kovac need time to adjust properly so I am not hoping much from Bayern this season, Bayern has been possession based team and Niko Kovac plays counter attack game and with current Bayern team counter attack can not be done, and President Uli Hoeness did not re-enforce Kovac according to his plan he wanted to get Dybala and Griezman next year when he retires from Bayern so no hope for Bayern till Uli Hoeness retires and if new President comes after Uli also has same mentality then sorry Bayern Munich. Hats off to Ajax they played very well after getting goal in starting also they did not loose their cool and played very well, they did not had famous players but they were fast, their attack was good their defence was good and they were able to tackle ball in midfield also, they were very well organized, they had good link-up, they had excellent rythem, at the end of game I thought Bayern lost but good save by Neuer, excellent played by Ajax. God Bless Bayern Munich from these kinds of games and God save Bayern Munich from these kind of Presidents.