Kane scores two as stylish Bayern beat Lazio to reach quarter-finals

Harry Kane scored two to assist Bayern Munich overturn a first-leg deficit against Lazio and approach to the quarter-finals of the Champions League.

Trailing 1-0 from the first leg in Rome, Bayern regarded space for a frustrating evening until Kane’s header levelled the scores on aggregate.

Lengthy-serving Thomas Muller doubled the lead on the evening with one other header.

Kane made it 3-1 on aggregate from stop fluctuate after Leroy Sane’s shot was parried into his route.

It was a considerable turnaround by Bayern and Kane is hoping the outcome can assist substitute Bayern’s fortunes after a bitterly disappointing domestic advertising and marketing campaign

“It be a excellent evening for us. It was a pleasant game,” he acknowledged.

“In spite of every thing we know now we maintain to strengthen, but nights treasure this could occasionally in level of truth substitute the season. I’m in level of truth pleased with the boys and we factual maintain to abet this momentum going.

“It was a in level of truth valuable 2d in our season. All individuals was taking a compare at us, taking a compare at how we had been going to acknowledge after the first leg.

“Hopefully we are able to exercise this as a turning level for the relaxation of the season.”

Thomas Tuchel’s facet had been going through a first season without a valuable trophy since 2011-12.

On the other hand, this to find keeps alive Tuchel’s hopes of turning in Bayern a seventh European title sooner than the used Chelsea boss leaves on the extinguish of the season.

The quarter-final blueprint takes station on 15 March.

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Kane delivers beneficial double

With 101 days to gallop sooner than the launch of Euro 2024, England captain Kane produced a beneficial double to abet his facet’s season alive.

He had already been denied by Lazio keeper Ivan Provedel when he pounced in the thirty eighth minute after a luminous switch moving Raphael Guerreiro and Muller.

His fiftieth aim in European competitors lifted the temper within the Allianz Arena and was followed in first-half damage time by Muller’s glancing header after a rasping volley from Matthijs de Ligt.

Kane’s 2d sealed a considerable to find sooner than Muller hit the post late on.

The used Tottenham participant now has 33 Bundesliga and Champions League dreams since interesting to Germany for an preliminary £86.4m plus add-ons.

“As a striker, you would possibly presumably perhaps presumably also very correctly be judged on dreams and assists, in nice fits in particular, in knockout stages treasure tonight,” added Kane.

“To be ready to assist the body of workers is self belief-building for me, self belief for the body of workers.

“I’m factual going to abet making an strive to blueprint what I’m doing. It be been a magnificent season up to now for me through dreams, but as a body of workers, we know we are able to blueprint better.”

Lazio had been crestfallen on the remaining whistle.

The Italian membership had arrived in Germany taking a compare to motive a valuable upset but wasted a vast probability to form it 2-0 on aggregate when Ciro Immobile headed vast rapidly sooner than Kane’s first aim.

Bayern maintain struggled below Tuchel this season after sweeping to 11 successive Bundesliga titles.

They wander leaders Bayer Leverkusen by 10 facets with 10 video games to gallop in the league and had been knocked out of the German Cup by third division Saarbrucken.

This, however, was a uncommon evening the set Tuchel could presumably perhaps manage to pay for to smile after a stylish to find.

“Coming from the scenario we had been in, there was so a lot resting on this game for us and I dangle we dealt with it in level of truth correctly,” defender Eric Dier, who was making his first Champions League look for Bayern since becoming a member of in January, told BBC Radio 5 Live.

“There is a excellent distance to gallop in the season and, in the Champions League, something else is feasible. We’re mad for the following round, that was the procedure for today.”