Kompany is keen for his side not to believe the hype despite continuing its record-breaking start to the 2025-2026 campaign.

He watched on as his team made it four wins from four UEFA Champions League games in midweek with a 2-1 victory away to holder Paris Saint-Germain.

Indeed, Bayern has now won 16 consecutive matches across all competitions this season and sits top of both the Bundesliga and the 36-team UEFA Champions League table.

It returns to domestic action at Stadion An der Alten Forstere on Sunday (AEDT), where it will take on Union Berlin, but Kompany was quick to keep his squad in check.

"I always tell my players, when there's hype, please don't believe it, you're not that good," Kompany said after Bayern's midweek win in the French capital.

"When you lose a game, or you have a bad performance, don’t believe that you're bad, you're not that bad — that's something I always keep with me.

"Now we've won 16. But from tomorrow it's back to zero, and we have to win the next game."

Bayern takes on a Union side that has endured a mixed start to its Bundesliga campaign, having taken 11 points from nine league games, leaving it 10th on the table.

It was held to a goalless draw away to Freiburg last time out, but Steffen Baumgart's team jas never gone more than two games unbeaten in the top-fight so far in 2025-2026.

Bayern's victory over Luis Enrique's PSG was made even more impressive after Luis Diaz was sent off in first-half stoppage-time for a lunge on Achraf Hakimi.

Diaz had scored twice in the first half, and despite Joao Neves reducing the deficit late on, Bayern was able to hold on to maintain its perfect record in the competition.

Its next assignment in UEFA's flagship tournament sees it take on Arsenal, which has also won its first four games in Europe, but without conceding a goal.

Inter is the only other team with a perfect record thus far, and Joshua Kimmich believes the clash with the Gunners will be a true measure of this Bayern team.

"We are first and have Arsenal in the next game," Kimmich said. "Then we can see once again where we stand.

"But in Paris, especially the first half, we were already outstandingly good. We were incredibly resilient, had many really good chances, and were physically very present.

"I must say, the first half was one of the most intense halves of my career, of both teams, this constant man-on-man game, and in the second half it felt even more intense."