Harry Kane’s beautiful first season in Germany is exhibiting no signal of slowing down.
The English striker led the road for Bayern Munich of their Champions League last-16 conflict with Lazio, a tie the place they’d have to overturn a 1-0 deficit from the primary leg.
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Fortunately for Thomas Tuchel’s facet, Kane was available to ease their worries and ship them by.
Alongside a aim from Thomas Muller, the 30-year-old bagged two goals to earn a 3-0 win to ship Bayern into the quarter-finals.
These objectives took Kane’s tally to 33 for the season, with 27 objectives within the Bundesliga and 6 within the Champions League.
With England gearing up for Euro 2024, it bodes effectively for Gareth Southgate that Kane is not the one star to shine within the Champions League this time period.
In addition to Kane’s six objectives and three assists, three different England stars have hit seven aim involvements on this season’s competitors.
These embrace Jude Bellingham, Bukayo Saka and Phil Foden who’ve scored 4 objectives, three objectives and three objectives respectively in Europe’s prime competitors this time period.
For Kane, one eye will certainly be on breaking the information set by himself.
Having scored 32 objectives in all competitions final time period, Kane has now surpassed the whole reached in his remaining season with Tottenham earlier than completing his £100million move to Bavaria.
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Not solely has he crushed final season’s whole, however he is completed it in 16 video games fewer having performed 33 instances this time period and needing 49 video games to succeed in it in 2022/23.
Kane’s thirty third aim of the season additionally signifies that this time period is now the joint-third most fruitful marketing campaign of his profession.
Simply two extra objectives would see the striker go stage together with his second-highest aim tally of 35 in a season which he achieved in 2016/17, whereas he will even have his sights set on recording his best campaign ever.
Kane’s finest season got here in 2017/18 when he scored a staggering 41 objectives in all competitions, however with simply eight strikes wanted to match that tally, it could take a courageous individual to wager in opposition to the England skipper beating his information by the tip of the season.
Nonetheless, the prize he actually craves is a serious trophy having extremely gone by his stellar profession with out lifting a bit of silverware.
With the Champions League remaining to be performed on the dwelling of English soccer, Kane stated: “Wembley means an terrible lot to me as a participant and an individual and I would be mendacity if I stated I wasn’t dreaming of getting there and successful the trophy.”
