Harry Kane scored a goal and set up another one when Bayern Munich won 2-0 at Bayer Leverkusen on Tuesday and went through the quarter -finals of the Champions League.
Bayern felt comfortable compared to the unbeaten German champion last season after having already done the damage with a dominant 3-0 win at home in the first leg.
When the match was goalless in halftime, Leverkusen rolled the cubes in search of the gates they needed, but it was Bavaria that struck and Kane crossed to tap a Joshua Kimmich cross at the beginning of the second half.
After Leverkusen pushed forward again, the visitors added a second in the 71st minute. Alphonso Davies beat a clever Kane -Chip -Low and difficult to doubled Bayern leadership.
Kane, so often criticizes that he missed in big games and was rated against Minnow, once again commanded how he achieved it in Munich when he scored a clip.
The English captain showed finesse and physicality when he kept Bavaria on the way to a Dream Home final and had the chance to exorcise the spirits of their 2012 Champions League end injury to Chelsea.
Leverkusen showed the spirit, although there was a lack of central midfielder Florian Wirtz, but the extent of the task was too high.
Eight points behind Bavaria in the league in the league and this season is the German trophy, in which Leverkusen is recently up to the Final Four.
A month after Leverkusen dominated the same opponent in the same place, but somehow didn’t break through, he was in drastically different circumstances in Bavaria.
In Munich in the sword in the perhaps poorest performance of Alonso’s 30-month reign six days ago, Leverkusen had to turn the tables on Bavaria, while the injured Wirtz, her best player, was missing.
After the criticism of his team selection in Munich, the outlet striker Patrik Schick and the winning of a usual backup goalkeeper Matej Kovar, Alonso called the Czech at the front and brought captain Lukas Hradecky back between the sticks.
The Bavaria’s Vincent Kompany only made one change, with the rookie goalkeeper Jonas Urbig replaced the injured veteran Manuel Neuer.
Kane signaled Bayern’s intention early and forced Hrabecky two tariff offings in opening 15 minutes.
Leverkusen was missing Wirtz and a little fluid, but remained ambitious, and an animated Alonso repeatedly pushed it from the sidelines.
Schick, only 11 minutes in Leverkusen’s two previous games, drove the best chance of the hosts with 38 minutes, the hosts’ first chance.
The second half brought a necessary risk for Leverkusen and Bavaria, which felt the blood in the water.
At the end of Kimmichs Lofted Pass, Kane got 52 minutes to kill all the remaining Leverkusen hope.
Kane then set up Davies to score in the last 20 minutes. He put Bavaria in the last eight and kept his personal search for a team trophy on the largest club football stage of everyone.
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