Harry Kane has turn out to be the primary participant to attain 4 hat-tricks of their debut Bundesliga season after starring in Bayern Munich’s crushing 8-1 win over Mainz.
England’s captain has now registered 36 targets in simply 34 appearances throughout all competitions in a glowing first 12 months in Germany. The 30-year-old has additionally bagged ten assists in that point to bolster his standing as one of many world’s greatest strikers.
Kane has taken simply 25 Bundesliga video games to succeed in 30 targets within the competitors and was readily available to open the scoring for Bayern in a sport Thomas Tuchel’s facet merely needed to win.
Leon Goretzka doubled the benefit earlier than Kane restored Bayern’s two-goal cushion – Nadiem Amiri had decreased the arrears for Mainz simply previous the half-hour mark – within the seventh minute of added-on time.
Thomas Muller made it 4 two minutes after the break earlier than Jamal Musiala profited from an excellent Kane help 14 minutes later – the previous Tottenham marksman enjoying an excellent cross-field move in behind Mainz’s defence to permit Musiala to chop inside and hearth into the underside nook.
Serge Gnabry added a sixth 4 minutes earlier than Kane grabbed his third of the afternoon – a easy close-range header after former Spurs teammate Eric Dier had been denied from a Raphael Guerreiro nook.
Goretzka added the gloss to a glowing Bayern win which Tuchel will hope can galvanise a push in the direction of a twelfth consecutive Bundesliga title. The Bavarian giants have fallen properly beneath the exceptionally excessive requirements anticipated of them – to the extent that former Chelsea and PSG boss Tuchel’s exit this summer time has already been confirmed.
Xabi Alonso’s Bayer Leverkusen cleared the path after 24 video games and extremely they’re nonetheless unbeaten throughout all competitions. The Spaniard’s fantastic work at Leverkusen, who’ve by no means gained the Bundesliga title, has seen him linked with the highest job at Bayern, though former membership Liverpool are additionally as they put together for all times after Jurgen Klopp.
As for Kane, he is additionally turn out to be the primary participant to attain two or extra targets in eight completely different Bundesliga video games throughout a debut season – the information persevering with to tumble for a participant Bayern dedicated to paying €100m for final summer time.
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