It took until the second half of proceedings, but a Bayern Munich side led by a Harry Kane hat-trick in the second half galloped to a 4-0 win over VfB Stuttgart at the Allianz Arena, snapping the Rekordmeister’s three-match winless streak prior to the international break. Prior to the break, Bayern had not won since their 5-0 routing of Werder Bremen towards the end of September.
After the dominance and number of shots Bayern recorded in the first half against Stuttgart, it looked as if the match had all the hallmarks of being another frustrating night at the office, but the floodgates opened after Kane’s strike in the 57th minute broke the deadlock. With the number of Stuttgart bodies the long-range effort traveled through en route to goal, there was little Alexander Nübel could do to save it, but the strike spurred the England skipper to score twice more in the span of the next 23 minutes. Kingsley Coman put the cherry on the cake with a goal in the 89th minute.
Speaking after the match, Kane was particularly pleased with the way that Bayern was finally able to make the most of their chances and dominance in the match. In the previous matches against Bayer Leverkusen, Aston Villa and Eintracht Frankfurt, they played decent enough, but did not take their chances well enough. “I think we played well in the last games but the results weren’t there. Today after the first goal the game opened up and we switched up another level they couldn’t keep up. It was an important game at home. We wanted to win and put in a good performance for the fans. We won 4-0, but I think it could’ve been 6 or 7,” Bayern’s hat-trick hero explained (via @iMiaSanMia).
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In addition to breaking Bayern’s winless streak of three matches, Kane also broke a drought of his own. Prior to the hat-trick against Stuttgart, he had not scored since the 5-0 win over Bremen, and he did not score for England during the international break earlier this month. He was able to put all of the outside noise to get back to business as usual, keeping his own hunt for the Torjäger Kanone very much alive. “As a striker, there are moments where everything you touch goes in. When you don’t score there’s always a lot of talk. It’s part of the striker’s life. I always believe in myself and in my teammates,” he said after collecting yet another match ball for Bayern (via @iMiaSanMia).
“I think some of the guys are sick of signing them. But I’ll try to keep them coming,” he joked when he was asked about taking home yet another match ball for his hat-trick performance. Of course, it would be a rather safe bet to assume there will be plenty more where that came from.
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