Harry Kane loses fourth last as RB Leipzig thrash Bayern Munich on debut

Harry Kane realized it’s arduous successful trophies, even if you happen to don’t play for Tottenham. His 26-minute cameo was not sufficient to save lots of his new staff Bayern Munich keep away from embarrassment as as a substitute of fireworks his unveiling became a miserable damp squib.

This is a fixture that equates to England’s Community Shield and such is Munich’s dominance of German soccer that that is the twelfth yr in a row they’ve contested it. They had gained it in six of the earlier seven years. But not tonight. Not with Kane within the staff.

His massive night time, after 48 hours of drama that led to his £100m transfer being accomplished on the morning of the sport, probably couldn’t have gone worse than probably the most nameless of hellos.

When Cristiano Ronaldo signed for Real Madrid, 80,000 turned as much as the Bernabeu simply to look at him pout and stand there heroically. Santi Cazorla appeared from nowhere in a smoke-filled chamber at Villareal and when Lionel Messi headed to Inter Miami, the world’s biggest was in a position conjure a number of thunderstorms so as to add to his personal spectacular pyrotechnics.

About 90 minutes earlier than kick-off Kane strolled out right into a half-empty stadium with a sheepish wave. He then joined round half-a-dozen of his team-mates standing wistfully in the midst of the luxurious inexperienced grass gazing wistfully across the area.

To say it was a low-key begin was nothing in comparison with when the motion correct began. It took simply 2 min 38 seconds of the Kane period for one more trophy to inch itself away from his grasp.

Leipzig have been clearly in a temper to be the party-poopers and when Munich did not clear a easy free-kick, Dani Olmo bundled the ball over the road.

Moreover, the best way Munich have been defending within the opening exchanges, Kane should have sat there on the bench questioning simply what number of targets he was going to have to attain to dig out his new team-mates.

When Munich did go ahead, they satirically appeared to lack any person to place the ball into the web. Mathys Tel fluffed a one-on-one probability. Serge Gnabry did not commit sufficient to get one thing on a deep cross.

Then, simply earlier than half-time, Olmo spun Matthijs de Ligt in a circle, glanced up, and rolled the ball into the Munich web for a second time. It was no shock to Kane or anyone that Munich have been whistled off the sphere by their very own followers.

Thomas Tuchel made three adjustments on the break, however none of them have been Kane. For the primary time, although, the brand new signing ventured out for a warm-up, giving him a close-up view of two different obtrusive Munich possibilities that have been wasted.

There was a chant of “Harry! Harry!” and one other of “Harry Kane!” – the Munich followers clearly nonetheless must resolve on the right way to salute their document signing. And on the hour he sprinted spherical to the half-way line to make his bow.

Munich instantly conceded a penalty when Noussair Mazraoui dealt with and Kane nonetheless had not had his first contact in German soccer was a kick-off when Olmo accomplished his hat-trick from the spot.

Kane managed two touches in all – a neat lay-off and he was hustled out of possession in his one promising second within the Leipzig penalty space.

That return from the membership’s new talisman deserves not more than 5 out of 10 – though it’s clear his new team-mates must do extra to get him concerned when the intense enterprise of the Bundesliga begins on Friday.

Luckily, Kane’s numbers are inclined to go up and up. It’s simply these trophies that elude him.

MUNICH (4-2-3-1): Ulreich 6; Pavard 6 (Mazraoui ht, 6), de Ligt 5 (Kim ht, 6), Upamecano 7, Davies 6; Laimer 6 (Coman ht, 6), Kimmich 7, Gnabry 7, Musiala 6, Sane 6 , Tel 6 (Kane 64, 5).

LEIPZIG (4-4-2): Blaswich 7; Henrichs 6 (Klostermann 85), Simakan 7, Orban 6, Raum 6; SImons 7, SeIwald 7, Schlager 6, Werner 5 (Poulsen 64, 6); Openda 6 (Sesko 64, 6), Olmo 8.

MAN OF THE MATCH: Dani Olmo – On an event crying out for a hat-trick hero, he was the one who delivered.

REFEREE: Bastian Dankert 7