MUNICH — Harry Kane scored 4 occasions on Tuesday to deliver his Champions League objective whole to 33, blowing previous the earlier file of 30 set by Wayne Rooney for essentially the most targets by an English participant within the competitors.
It was all a part of a file evening for the striker and Bayern Munich, as they cruised to a 9-2 rout of Croatian facet Dinamo Zagreb within the first spherical of video games within the new-look Champions League format.
The 9 targets for Bayern had been additionally essentially the most ever in a Champions League sport by a single workforce, and Kane had one other European file to his credit score with three of his targets coming from the penalty spot.
“Wonderful sport, a little bit of a loopy sport for positive,” Kane advised broadcaster DAZN. “To attain all these targets ultimately was an important evening.
“To be trustworthy, after the second [penalty] I did not actually know what to do with the third one, however fortunately I used to be capable of put it away.”
Kane opened the scoring from the penalty spot to offer Bayern the lead and equal Rooney’s mark for an Englishman. He scored his thirty first on a rebound to move Rooney and added two extra from the penalty spot to take his Champions League tally to 12 targets since shifting to Bayern a 12 months in the past.
“He’s motivated and for me as a coach it’s simpler as a result of in case you have a high participant who’s himself so motivated it makes issues a lot simpler,” stated Bayern supervisor Vincent Kompany after the match. “He’s a frontrunner, captain of the nationwide workforce. Gamers like him, they know they need to rise at these moments and that’s what he’s doing.”
Raphael Guerreiro, Michael Olise, Leroy Sane and Leon Goretzka piled on the targets for Bayern to hit the file haul of 9 in a single Champions League sport, whereas Bruno Petkovic and Takuya Ogiwara every scored to get the guests on the scoresheet.
Kane now has 53 targets in 50 video games in all competitions since shifting to Bayern and has scored 9 targets in his previous three video games for membership and nation, together with two for England in opposition to Finland in his one hundredth worldwide sport and a hat trick Saturday for Bayern in opposition to Holstein Kiel within the Bundesliga.
One other file was damaged when Thomas Müller got here off the bench to play his 152nd Champions League sport for Bayern. That is essentially the most for a participant for one membership, breaking a tie with former Barcelona participant Xavi Hernandez.
Regardless of the lopsided win, it was not all reward from Kompany, who noticed his workforce lead 3-0 at half-time however concede two targets in two minutes shortly after the restart because the Croats tried to discover a manner again.
“We scored 9 however we conceded two targets. We conceded these targets as a result of we had been a step too late. Nonetheless we stayed calmed after which had night,” stated the Belgian.
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