BERLIN:
Harry Kane scored in every half as Bayern Munich piled the ache on outdated foe Hamburg in a 5-0 dwelling win on Saturday.
Kane introduced his Bayern tally to 93 targets in 101 video games whereas Serge Gnabry, Luis Diaz and Aleksandar Pavlovic additionally scored.
Alongside Borussia Dortmund as the one Bundesliga sides to win the European Cup, Bayern and Hamburg have taken completely different paths since dominating German soccer within the Eighties.
Bayern have gained 12 of the previous 13 league titles whereas Hamburg had been promoted final season after seven seasons within the second division.
Goalscorer Gnabry toasted Bayern’s “blind understanding,” saying “issues are going nicely within the staff. We’re taking part in nicely collectively, we’re transferring the ball round properly”.
Gnabry hammered the ball into the roof of the online simply three minutes in. Bayern junior Pavlovic completed off a staff transfer six minutes later.
Kane transformed a penalty awarded for handball with 26 minutes performed. Diaz made it 4 three minutes later, his fourth aim since becoming a member of Bayern in the summertime.
Nicolas Jackson got here on at half-time, making his debut after transferring to Bayern on mortgage from Chelsea in the summertime.
Bayern open their Champions League marketing campaign at dwelling in opposition to Chelsea on Wednesday.
The England captain then began and completed off his personal transfer to attain Bayern’s fifth and ultimate aim within the 62nd minute.
Since Hamburg’s final win in Munich in 2007, Bayern have gained 16 and drawn three of their dwelling matches within the collection, scoring 76 targets to Hamburg’s seven, a run which incorporates two 8-0 wins and a 9-2 victory.
Bayern moved atop the desk as the one aspect with three wins from three.
– Guirassy scores, Dortmund wins –
Serhou Guirassy scored for the eighth straight league match as Dortmund gained 2-0 at 10-man Heidenheim.
Heidenheim’s Budu Zivzivadze obtained a pink card 21 minutes for a studs-up problem just under the knee on Dortmund’s Felix Nmecha.
An acrobatic save from Heidenheim goalie Diant Ramaj, on mortgage from Dortmund, denied Guirassy from the following free-kick.
The Guinean didn’t take lengthy to get on the scoresheet, heading in a pinpoint Julian Ryerson cross with 33 minutes performed.
Within the sixth minute of first-half stoppage time, Karim Adeyemi danced by the Heidenheim defence earlier than squaring to Maximilian Beier who tapped Dortmund two in entrance.
“Our aim is to develop into champions, so we’ve got to get factors. We did that,” Beier informed Sky Germany.
“While you’re a person up the complete recreation, that makes it simpler.”
Requested about Guirassy’s efficiency, Dortmund sporting director Sebastian Kehl stated merely: “Serhou scores once more.”
Guirassy, 29, has solely failed to attain in two of his previous 15 matches for Dortmund in all competitions, racking up 18 targets within the course of.
Champions League finalists in 2024, Dortmund kick off their European season away at Juventus on Tuesday.
Elsewhere, Freiburg scored three targets within the ultimate 10 minutes to beat Stuttgart 3-1 at dwelling.
Left to hold the mantle up entrance after Nick Woltemade’s big-money transfer to Newcastle, Ermedin Demirovic put Stuttgart in entrance with an aesthetic backheel after 20 minutes, holding up two Freiburg defenders and sliding a slick end into the nook.
Stuttgart appeared set to carry on for victory till Freiburg’s Igor Matanovic kick-started a late flurry, scoring with 9 minutes remaining.
Derry Scherhant put the hosts in entrance 5 minutes later and Matanovic grabbed one other in stoppage time for Freiburg’s first factors of the season.
Union Berlin gave away two penalties and completed a person down in a 4-2 dwelling loss to Hoffenheim.
Hoffenheim’s Fisnik Asllani scored a brace, whereas Andrej Kramaric and Tim Lemperle transformed from the spot.
Johan Bakayoko scored his first aim since arriving at RB Leipzig in the summertime in a 1-0 win at Mainz.
Promoted Cologne scored within the 14th minute of second-half stoppage time to grab some extent in a 3-3 draw at Wolfsburg, with Jakub Kaminski offering the essential aim for the guests in opposition to his dad or mum membership.
