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League round-up: Harry Kane scores twice on home debut as Bayern extend winning start

Here on home soil we have not played as freely as we know we are capable of, says Thomas Tuchel

Reuters Munich Published 29.08.23, 09:25 AM
Bayern Munich’s Harry Kane.

Bayern Munich’s Harry Kane. File photo

Bundesliga record signing Harry Kane scored twice in his first league appearance in front of a home crowd on Sunday to steer champions Bayern Munich to a 3-1 victory over Augsburg and make it two wins out of two matches.

Kane, who joined for a league record $108 million from Tottenham Hotspur and also scored in last week's league-opening 4-0 win at Werder Bremen as well as setting up another, got on the scoresheet with a 40th-minute penalty before adding their third goal in the 69th.

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Kane, whose wife had their fourth child this week, has hit the ground running since his arrival in Munich just over two weeks ago and has now become only the third Bayern player to score three times in his first two league games and the first since Adolfo Valencia in 1993.

The striker was brought in to improve Bayern's scoring after struggling since the departure of Robert Lewandowski last year, and allow them to challenge for the Champions League once more.

Despite their second straight league win coach Thomas Tuchel was not happy with his team's overall performance, especially after a sluggish first half. "Here on home soil we have not played as freely as we know we are capable of," Tuchel told a news conference.

Juve lose points

Juventus bounced back from a lacklustre first half to secure a 1-1 home draw against Bologna in Serie A, thanks to a late equaliser from Dusan Vlahovic.

Ten minutes before stoppage time, the Serbian international directed a header into the far bottom corner.

Unfashionable Lorient, Metz and Stade de Reims all won in Ligue 1 on Sunday while Olympique Lyonnais claimed their first point of the new French league campaign with a 0-0 draw at Nice. Lyon fought out a bruising and tempestuous stalemate to get off the mark.

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