Bundesliga, 11th round
Munich, Allianz Arena
Bayern – Augsburg 3:0
Goals: Kane 63 (n), 90+3 (n), 90+5
Augsburg arrived in Munich without much hope, having a terrible series of away matches behind them – 7 defeats in the last 8 games away from home. But the frenzied spirit of Jess Thorup’s team for the Bavarian derby leveled out all the problems. The Fuggers selflessly fought off the favorites for an hour until Harry Kane finally broke through their defense from the spot.
The visitors packed into an ultra-compact 3-5-2 with the intention of denying Bayern play between the lines. In many details, they inherited “St. Pauli” and “Benfica”, which before the international break closed quite solidly against the “record master”, although in the end they lost minimally with a score of 1:0.
The same story happened today. Bayern found it difficult to create clear chances in the first hour of the match. Although even the extremely disciplined work of the fuggers’ defenders could not completely cover Musiala. The Munich team targeted the half-flanks, from where either Coman or Olise found the No. 10 between the lines, while Davis/Guerreiro’s wide runs distracted the defenders.
Thus, in the debut, Musiala gracefully threw Goretzka with his heel under the longshot, who had to be brought back from the reserves due to personnel problems in the prop. Next came Jamal’s kick to Kimmich from outside the penalty area. Kane, following the same algorithm as his ten, opened up on the right and entered the penalty area, shooting from an acute angle.
Then Musiala brazenly left the three and shot dangerously from the corner of the penalty area into the far corner. Literally in the next attack, the Bundestim prodigy entered the front line and shot dangerously at point-blank range. And just before the break, a couple of centimeters were not enough for Jamal to close in Kane’s cross. But the ball stubbornly did not go into the goal.
The long-awaited breakthrough came just before the hour mark when Pedersen’s corner was handballed in his own area and Kane scored his 9th straight Bundesliga penalty.
Augsburg was never able to rebuild. How to even strike towards Neuer’s goal after missing a goal. Although here we need to note Bayern’s counterpressing. Top performance in this component.
And already in stoppage time Kane lit it up. First, he scored his 10th penalty in a row, which he earned after Gnabry’s cross. Schlotterbeck stopped the Englishman with a second yellow in this episode. Therefore, after 2 minutes, Harry burst into the empty center of defense and very impressively scored a hat-trick. With his first touch he stopped a difficult ball and put the keeper down, with his second he lightly headed it into the net.
3:0. The productive Kane, with two shots from the spots and involvement before the final whistle, eclipsed the insane performance of Musiala with 6 shots on target, a million dribbles and subtle openings. But Jamal lacks efficiency, and therefore his attacking partner steals all the glory today.
Bavaria: Neuer – Davies (Boe, 90+4), Kim Min Jae, Upamecano, Guerreirou (Limer, 76) – Goretzka, Kimmich – Koman (Gnabry, 76), Musiala (Mueller, 88), Olise (Sane, 76) – Kane
Augsburg: Labrovic – Schlotterbeck, Gaueleu, Matsima – Jannulis (Pedersen, 38), Mayer (Kemur, 69), Onyeka, Rejbechai, Wolf (Kudossu, 78) – Claude-Maurice (Vargas, 78), Tietz (Essende, 69)
Removal: Schlotterback 90+2
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