Updated Monday, April 8, 2024 – 22:12
The name of Harry Kane It had been operating for a long time on the horizon of the best clubs in Europe. A tireless scorer, the English national team striker had to wait until last year to leave Tottenham Hotspur, a team that had outgrown him. Eager to win titles prohibited in London, as the Spurs lacked the sporting and financial muscle to face the greats of the Premier League and the continent, he was transferred to Bayern Munich until 2027, in exchange for more than one hundred million euros. He was leaving for a team that had won the last ten Bundesligas and that presented itself as one of the candidates to fight for one more season for the Champions League.
Kane has been doing his job well since he arrived in Germany. He has scored 38 goals, six of them in the continental competition. At 30 years old he maintains class and instinct. Very much to the taste of Pep Guardiola and at the time also in the orbit of Real Madrid, he ended up in a Bayern that intends to bid for its sixth European Cup, six years after winning the title for the last time.
Before the first leg of the quarter-final against Arsenal, their options are intact, but what Kane and the fans of the Bavarian team surely did not count on was depending exclusively on the Champions League to avoid being left without titles for the first time since the 2011/12 academic year. With the 3-2 defeat against Heidenheim. Bayern is 16 points behind Bayer Leverkusen in Xabi Alonso.
Looking for a coach
The 3-0 loss to Leipzig in the German Super Cup final and the elimination against third division Saarbrcken in the second round of the Cup have left Bayern sighing almost desperately for redemption in Europe.
Thomas Tuchel so far it has not met expectations as a replacement for Julian Nagelsmann and leave the bench in June, regardless of what happens between now and then. Xabi Alonso, who was the priority as a replacement, has already announced that he will remain in Leverkusen for at least one more week. The search for a coach for next season is an issue that raises concern. When asked by journalists after the game against Heidenheim, the technical director, Max Eberl He reacted like this: I don’t give a shit about finding a coach. Now everything focuses on the game against Arsenal.
Leader of the Premier League, with one point more than Liverpool and Manchester City, the team that trains Mikel Arteta be a careful adversary. On the last day of the domestic tournament, they beat Brighton 0-3 to reaffirm their chances of winning the league again for the first time in two decades.
14 goals for the Gunners
Many of the German options will once again depend on the success of Kane, extra motivated against an opponent whom he has hurt like few others. Throughout his career in England, he has scored 14 goals against Arsenal, a ferocity only surpassed by the 20 he achieved against Leicester and the 16 against Everton.
Bayern performed comfortably in the group stage and has only lost one match throughout this edition of the Champions League, in the first leg of the round of 16, 1-0 against Lazio, reversed with a 3-0 defeat. Allianz Arena. Arsenal also dominated in the first phase, before being forced to penalties to leave Porto behind, thanks to the performance of the Spanish goalkeeper David Raya.
2024-04-08 20:12:37
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