Bayern Munich coach Pep Guardiola said his side did not play a perfect game, despite the lopsided 7-1 scoreline away to Roma in the Champions League on Tuesday.
The German champions led 5-0 at halftime, although Roma was able to put one on the scoresheet after the break.
Gervinho's goal was the first Bayern had conceded in any competition since August 30 and snapped a shutout streak of 813 minutes, much to Guardiola's annoyance.
"My team have the ability to make decisive moves in a second and this is very important, but that is not to say this was the perfect match," the Bayern manager said.
"The first few minutes were not so perfect, and Roma played very good football in the second half. However, we are obviously happy with this result and the fact that we are very close to qualifying.
"In the second half we allowed Daniele De Rossi and Miralem Pjanic to get the ball to Gervinho and Juan Manuel Iturbe, who created two or three dangerous chances that we blocked thanks to Manuel Neuer. The result was clear, but we have to keep passing the ball, and we did not in that phase of the game.
Guardiola won the Champions League in 2009 and 2011 with Barcelona, and he said those teams have something in common with his current Bayern side.
"My Bayern are different to my Barcelona; but both are great teams with two great properties -- they let me do what I believe in and put my thoughts into action."
Arjen Robben, who scored two of Bayern's goals on Tuesday, credited Guardiola and his staff on making the game plan easy for the players to execute.
"I'm still convinced Roma have a very good team -- they've shown that this season -- but we should pay a big compliment to us, to all the players, but also to the coaching staff who prepared this game in the way we played, the way we created chances and scored goals. There were some great goals tonight.
"We played a little different tonight. Everybody has seen it, but it's not good to talk about our tactics and how we want to play. Everybody can see it and watch the match to analyse us. But a big compliment to the team and the tactics."