Bayern Munich striker Harry Kane bagged a record-breaking thirty first league objective and Jamal Musiala added two extra within the facet’s 5-2 demolition of hosts Darmstadt 98 on Saturday that moved the champions provisionally to inside seven factors of leaders Bayer Leverkusen within the Bundesliga.
Kane put Bayern, who face Arsenal within the Champions League quarterfinals subsequent month, 2-1 up in first-half stoppage time to take his league tally to 31, greater than any participant has scored of their first Bundesliga season.
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It is usually a private league greatest for the England captain — the Bundesliga’s costliest switch at €100 million — who scored between Musiala’s two targets.
However he was taken off injured within the 81st after sliding into the put up, getting tangled within the sidenetting and twisting his ankle.
“He stumbled and fell within the internet and twisted his ankle,” Bayern coach Thomas Tuchel mentioned. “He’s cooling it now with ice. There isn’t any prognosis but. We now have to attend and see and hope it’s only a scary second.”
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England, getting ready for Euro 2024 in Germany in June, play Brazil on March 23 and Belgium three days later.
“Total we’re pleased with a deserved win. We saved creating probabilities and we deserved the targets we scored,” Tuchel mentioned.
“It has been a superb week and we’ve got an excellent ambiance and are coaching nicely. We’re comfortable to proceed our run after our wins over Lazio [in the Champions League] and Mainz [last week],” mentioned the coach who will depart on the finish of the season after a poor run at first of the yr.
The win lifts Bayern to 60 factors in second place, seven factors behind Leverkusen who journey to Freiburg on Sunday.Â
The guests had the higher hand from the beginning but it surely was Darmstadt who struck first, with Tim Skarke slotting in to shine off a fast break that caught Bayern off guard within the twenty eighth minute.
They didn’t have to attend lengthy for an equaliser after teenager Aleksandar Pavlovic, recent from being picked for the Germany squad for pleasant matches later in March, dribbled previous three gamers, charged into the field and located Kane, who handed to Musiala to complete the transfer within the thirty sixth minute.
Kane then accomplished their comeback in stoppage time with a diving header, however Bayern virtually conceded one other themselves when Darmstadt’s Oscar Wilhelmsson hit the crossbar on the stroke of halftime.
Germany worldwide Musiala, in excellent kind, put the sport to mattress within the sixty fourth minute with a surprising solo run for his tenth league objective however they weren’t but achieved.
Substitute Serge Gnabry and Mathys Tel each obtained onto the scoresheet earlier than Wilhelmsson bagged one other objective for Darmstadt, who additionally hit the woodwork as soon as extra late within the recreation.