Kane moves closer to goals record as Bayern sink Union
Bayern Munich's English forward Harry Kane reacts during the German first division Bundesliga football match between FC Bayern Munich and Union Berlin in Munich, southern Germany. Photo / AFP
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Serge Gnabry bagged a brace and Harry Kane inched closer to the Bundesliga single-season goals record as Bayern Munich beat Union Berlin 4-0 at home on Saturday.
Michael Olise also got on the scoresheet as Bundesliga
leaders Bayern went 12 clear. Borussia Dortmund can return the gap to nine
points with a win at home to Hamburg in Saturday's late game.
Kane's second-half goal took him to 31 goals this campaign
-- the same number Union have scored all season -- and 10 short of Robert
Lewandowski's mark from 2020-21, with seven games to play.
Bayern now have 97 goals this season, four short of the best
mark set in 1971-72, when Franz Beckenbauer and Gerd Mueller helped the
Bavarian giants tear through the Bundesliga.
Coach Vincent Kompany made five changes from the side which
thumped Atalanta on Wednesday to set up a Champions League quarter-final clash
with Real Madrid, but kept Kane front and centre.
Union had never beaten Bayern in 14 clashes and held out
until the 41st minute, when Olise collected a punted Leon Goretzka pass and
curled the ball into the top corner.
Gnabry made it two just before the break, knocking in a
rebound at the far post.
Kane pirouetted and curled in Bayern's third just after the
break, boosting his tally to 48 in 40 games in all competitions this season.
Gnabry was again in the right place to volley in with 67
minutes gone and add gloss to another big Bayern win.
Bayer Leverkusen's top-four hopes took a hit with a 3-3 draw
at rock-bottom Heidenheim after leading 2-0 at half-time and 3-2 with five
minutes remaining.
The draw leaves Leverkusen sixth, four points behind RB
Leipzig, Stuttgart and Hoffenheim, who are all level on 50 points. Stuttgart
have a game in hand.
Hoping to bounce back from Tuesday's Champions League exit
at Arsenal, first-half goals to Malik Tillmann and Patrik Schick had Leverkusen
on course for a routine win.
Heidenheim fought back to level the match through a Hennes
Behrens goal and a Marvin Pieringer penalty. Schick once again gave Leverkusen
the lead with a header but Pieringer levelled things up from a corner with 85
minutes gone.
Justin Njinmah scored the only goal as Werder Bremen won 1-0
at Wolfsburg to push their hosts closer to a first ever Bundesliga relegation.
Second-last with just one victory in the calendar year, 2009
German champions Wolfsburg could be six points from safety if St Pauli beat
Freiburg on Sunday.
Elsewhere, Rhine Derby rivals Cologne and Borussia
Moenchengladbach played out a 3-3 draw.


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