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Champions League: Record-breaking Harry Kane smashes four goals for Bayern
Harry Kane scored a second successive hat-trick for Bayern (Image Source: X/@FCBayernEN)

Champions League: Record-breaking Harry Kane smashes four goals for Bayern

Sep 18, 2024
03:33 am

What's the story

Harry Kane scored a second successive hat-trick in the 2024-25 season for Bayern Munich, who tamed Dinamo Zagreb 9-2 in matchweek 1 of the revamped UEFA Champions League. Kane scored four goals in the contest, including three penalties as he broke a plethora of records. Bayern became the first side to score nine-plus goals in a Champions League game in the Champions League era.

Champions League

UCL: Kane surpasses Rooney to become highest scorer among Englishmen

Kane has become the highest goal-scorer among Englishman in the Champions League. Kane, who has raced to 33 Champions League goals, overtook Wayne Rooney (30) for most goals scored by an English player in the competition. Kane, who was the top scorer in the 2023-24 Champions League season (8), owns 12 goals for Bayern in the competition. He scored 21 goals for Tottenham Hotspur.

Goals

Kane surpasses 50 goals for Bayern in his 50th appearance

Kane has surpassed 50 goals for Bayern in 50 matches across all competitions. He owns 53 goals since joining the German club in the summer of 2023. Kane scored 44 goals last season from 45 matches. He made 12 assists. This season, Kane owns nine goals and two assists. Overall, he has 53 goals and 14 assists for the club.

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Kane makes more history

As per Opta, Kane is the first player to score a hat-trick of penalties in a European Cup/Champions League match. He is also the first Englishman to score 4 goals in a Champions League match since Arsenal's Alan Smith against FK Austria Wien in 1991.

Hat-trick

Kane nets his 5th hat-trick for Bayern

Kane netted his 5th hat-trick for Bayern in all competitions. On Saturday, he scored a hat-trick in Bayern's 6-1 win over Holstein Kiel in the Bundesliga. Notably, Kane managed three hat-tricks in the Bundesliga last season. Overall, this was Kane's 2nd Champions League hat-trick. He scored three goals in Spurs' 3-0 win over APOEL in 2017-18.

Records

3rd Englishman to score multiple hat-tricks in the Champions League

As per Squawka, Kane has become the 3rd Englishman to score multiple hat-tricks in the Champions League after Andy Cole and Michael Owen, who smashed two such hat-tricks. Kane smashed his 24th hat-trick of his career for club and country. As per Opta, for the fifth time, Kane has scored a hat-trick in back.

Bayern

Bayern had 60 touches in the opposition box

Bayern had 6.27 expected goals compared to 0.57 of Zagreb. Vincent Kompany's Bayern had 29 attempts with 19 shots on target. Zagreb managed three shots on target from four attempts. Bayern had 60 touches in the opposition box compared to Zagreb's six. Bayern had 70% ball possession and owned 12 corners to their opponent's nil.

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Goal scorers and assist makers in the match

Besides Kane's four goals, Raphael Guerreiro, Michael Olise (2), Leroy Sane and Leon Goretzka were the goal scorers. Jamal Musiala provided two assists alongside Joshua Kimmich. Veteran Thomas Muller provided an assist as well in his 152nd Champions League appearance.