Harry Kane Double Takes Bayern Munich Previous Union Berlin, Borussia Dortmund Beat Leipzig

Harry Kane scored twice and arrange one other as Bayern Munich moved three factors clear on the high of the German Bundesliga with a 3-0 residence win over Union Berlin on Saturday. The England captain put Bayern forward from the spot on quarter-hour after Union’s Benedict Hollerbach introduced down Michael Olise on the sting of the field. Kane turned supplier simply earlier than half-time, tapping the ball into Kingsley Coman‘s path, the France ahead blasting in over Union goalkeeper Frederik Ronnow. 

Kane added one other after 51 minutes, eagerly attending to a unfastened ball inches forward of teammate Jamal Musiala to finish his brace.

Despite two consecutive Champions League losses at Aston Villa and Barcelona, Bayern have now scored 16 with out conceding of their previous 4 video games towards German opposition. 

“We’ve not started the Champions League well, so the pressure is on in every Champions League game now,” Kane stated. 

“I think if we use the confidence that we’ve played the last few games with, we can cause any team a lot of problems.”

“There’s still a long way to go, but we’ve got the right mentality and the right attitude,” Kane instructed Sky.

“If we keep going like this, everything will be OK — we’re in good shape.” 

Having wanted a win to keep away from relegation on the ultimate match day final season, Union now sit sixth and captain Christopher Trimmel instructed Sky “we can live with it — Bayern were the favourites and have unbelievable quality.”

Frankfurt hit seven

Borussia Dortmund carved out a 2-1 residence victory over RB Leipzig to alleviate the strain on under-fire coach Nuri Sahin.

Dortmund got here into the sport with 4 losses of their previous 5 video games, together with Tuesday’s German Cup elimination by Wolfsburg — their earliest exit in 15 years. 

Dortmund spurned a number of clear-cut possibilities early earlier than Benjamin Sesko put Leipzig in entrance after 27 minutes, blasting in off the crossbar. 

The hosts hit again three minutes later, Maximilian Beier tapping in a ball within the field for his first Dortmund objective since arriving in the summertime.

With simply over half an hour remaining, Beier looped a cross in to Serhou Guirassy, who headed Dortmund in entrance, his fifth objective in his previous six league video games. 

“The style and manner was great today. That’s what we expect of ourselves, even if we don’t always get there,” Dortmund captain Emre Can instructed Sky.  

The win despatched Dortmund fifth whereas Leipzig now sit three factors behind league leaders Bayern after struggling their first league lack of the season.

Kane’s double took him previous his major rival on this season’s goalscoring battle, Omar Marmoush, who scored one and assisted two extra in Eintracht Frankfurt’s 7-2 demolition of hapless Bochum. 

Hugo Ekitike scored a brace whereas Marmoush, Ansgar Knauff, Nathaniel Brown, Mahmoud Dahoud and Can Uzun all received on the scoresheet within the rout. 

Marmoush now has 10 objectives to Kane’s 11 this season, however the Egyptian’s six assists — the very best within the league — are yet one more than the England captain’s 5.

Frankfurt leapfrogged champions Bayer Leverkusen into third place, six factors behind leaders Bayern.

Bochum scored objectives in every half by means of Dani de Wit and Philipp Hofmann however had been totally outclassed.

Bochum now have only one level from 9 video games to sit down stranded on the backside of the desk after each promoted sides St Pauli and Holstein Kiel received on Saturday. 

Kiel beat Heidenheim 1-0 at residence because of a objective from Patrick Erras, for his or her first win within the high division, to go three factors away from Bochum. 

Goals from Oladapo Afolayan and Andreas Albers took St Pauli to a 2-0 win at Hoffenheim, drawing them degree with their opponents on eight factors simply above the direct relegation zone. 

Elsewhere, Wolfsburg drew 1-1 at residence with Augsburg. 

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