Harry Kane scores brace as Bayern thump Hamburg again

Harry Kane scored successful each fractional arsenic Bayern Munich piled the symptom connected aged foe Hamburg successful a 5-0 location triumph connected Saturday.

Kane brought his Bayern tally to 93 goals successful 101 games portion Serge Gnabry, Luis Diaz and Aleksandar Pavlovic besides scored.

Alongside Borussia Dortmund arsenic the lone Bundesliga sides to triumph the European Cup, Bayern and Hamburg person taken antithetic paths since dominating German shot successful the 1980s.

Bayern person won 12 of the past 13 league titles portion Hamburg were promoted past play aft 7 seasons successful the 2nd division.

Goalscorer Gnabry toasted Bayern’s “blind understanding,” saying “things are going good successful the team. We’re playing good together, we’re moving the shot astir nicely”.

Gnabry hammered the shot into the extortion of the nett conscionable 3 minutes in. Bayern inferior Pavlovic finished disconnected a squad determination six minutes later.

Kane converted a punishment awarded for handball with 26 minutes played. Diaz made it 4 3 minutes later, his 4th extremity since joining Bayern successful the summer.

Nicolas Jackson came connected astatine half-time, making his debut aft moving to Bayern connected indebtedness from Chelsea successful the summer.

Bayern unfastened their Champions League run astatine location against Chelsea connected Wednesday.

The England skipper past started and finished disconnected his ain determination to people Bayern’s 5th and last extremity successful the 62nd minute.

Since Hamburg’s past triumph successful Munich successful 2007, Bayern person won 16 and drawn 3 of their location  matches successful the series, scoring 76 goals to Hamburg’s seven, a tally which includes 2 8-0 wins and a 9-2 victory.

Bayern moved atop the array arsenic the lone broadside with 3 wins from three.

– Guirassy scores, Dortmund wins –

Serhou Guirassy scored for the eighth consecutive league lucifer arsenic Dortmund won 2-0 astatine 10-man Heidenheim.

Heidenheim’s Budu Zivzivadze received a reddish paper 21 minutes for a studs-up situation conscionable beneath the genu connected Dortmund’s Felix Nmecha.

An acrobatic prevention from Heidenheim goalie Diant Ramaj, connected indebtedness from Dortmund, denied Guirassy from the ensuing free-kick.

The Guinean did not instrumentality agelong to get connected the scoresheet, heading successful a pinpoint Julian Ryerson transverse with 33 minutes played.

In the sixth infinitesimal of first-half stoppage time, Karim Adeyemi danced done the Heidenheim defence earlier squaring to Maximilian Beier who tapped Dortmund 2 successful front.

“Our extremity is to go champions, truthful we person to get points. We did that,” Beier told Sky Germany.

“When you’re a antheral up the full game, that makes it easier.”

Asked astir Guirassy’s performance, Dortmund sporting manager Sebastian Kehl said simply: “Serhou scores again.”

Guirassy, 29, has lone failed to people successful 2 of his past 15 matches for Dortmund successful each competitions, racking up 18 goals successful the process.

Champions League finalists successful 2024, Dortmund footwear disconnected their European play distant astatine Juventus connected Tuesday.

Elsewhere, Freiburg scored 3 goals successful the last 10 minutes to bushed Stuttgart 3-1 astatine home.

Left to transportation the mantle up beforehand aft Nick Woltemade’s big-money determination to Newcastle, Ermedin Demirovic enactment Stuttgart successful beforehand with a classy backheel aft 20 minutes, holding up 2 Freiburg defenders and sliding a slick decorativeness into the corner.

Stuttgart looked acceptable to clasp connected for triumph until Freiburg’s Igor Matanovic kick-started a precocious flurry, scoring with 9 minutes remaining.

Derry Scherhant enactment the hosts successful beforehand 5 minutes aboriginal and Matanovic grabbed different successful stoppage clip for Freiburg’s archetypal points of the season.

Union Berlin gave distant 2 penalties and finished a antheral down successful a 4-2 location nonaccomplishment to Hoffenheim.

Hoffenheim’s Fisnik Asllani scored a brace, portion Andrej Kramaric and Tim Lemperle converted from the spot.

Johan Bakayoko scored his archetypal extremity since arriving astatine RB Leipzig successful the summertime successful a 1-0 triumph astatine Mainz.

Promoted Cologne scored successful the 14th infinitesimal of second-half stoppage clip to snatch a constituent successful a 3-3 gully astatine Wolfsburg, with Jakub Kaminski providing the important extremity for the visitors against his genitor club.

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