Staff Reporter.
Harry Kane scored a stoppage-time winner as Bayern Munich beat RB Leipzig 2-1 to pick up an important win in the Bundesliga title race.
Kane placed in a brilliant left-footed finish after Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting got in behind the Leipzig defence and cut back for the England captain.
The former Tottenham striker scored the opener too, firing in left-footed after being put in by Jamal Musiala.
Benjamin Sesko’s deflected equaliser had looked set to earn Leipzig a point.
Kane has now scored 27 Bundesliga goals and 31 in all competitions since joining from Spurs in the summer.
Bayern remain second in the Bundesliga, eight points behind the unbeaten Bayer Leverkusen.
The win comes after Bayern this week confirmed head coach Thomas Tuchel would leave at the end of the season.
Bayern have been German champions in each of the past 11 seasons but face the possibility of ending the campaign without a trophy.
They lost in the German Super Cup in August and then went out of the German Cup in the second round to third-tier Saarbrucken in November.
Tuchel’s side lost 3-0 at Leverkusen on 10 February and 3-2 at Bochum last weekend. They were also beaten 1-0 by Lazio in the first leg of their Champions League last-16 tie in midweek.
Kane’s remarkable scoring continues
Kane is currently the top scorer in the Bundesliga, moving nine clear of Stuttgart’s Serhou Guirassy with this double.
He has also scored six more goals than any player in Europe’s top five leagues, with Paris St-Germain striker Kylian Mbappe next on 21.
However, the 30-year-old still has some way to go to break the Bundesliga record – 41 goals by former Bayern striker Robert Lewandowski in 2020-21.
Kane has 11 league games left this season and needs 14 goals to equal the tally.
He could also break his own top-scoring season, which was 41 goals in 48 games for Tottenham in 2017-18.