Vincent Kompany’s Bayern Munich maintained their unbeaten begin to the Bundesliga season after drawing 1-1 with champions Bayer Leverkusen on the Allianz Enviornment, though the Bavarians did lose Harry Kane to damage late on.
Kane, who was largely nameless all through after failing to have a single shot in a league sport for the primary time in over three years, limped off late on with a leg damage – however stated after the sport that he hoped to be match for Bayern’s Champions League sport in opposition to Aston Villa on Wednesday.
“It’s a bit painful,” the England worldwide stated after the sport. “Just rolled it a little bit, nothing I haven’t had before. We will have it checked tomorrow but I think it is okay. I assume I’ll be able to play.”
The sport shall be finest remembered for 2 spectacular long-range first-half strikes as first Robert Andrich opened the scoring simply previous the half-hour mark after gathering Granit Xhaka’s layoff, earlier than drilling a low shot into the underside nook previous a helpless Manuel Neuer.
Leverkusen’s Robert Andrich (second proper) celebrates after scoring the opener (AP Picture/Matthias Schrader)
That aim got here utterly in opposition to the run of play, though it didn’t take Munich lengthy to equalise after one other second of brilliance, this time from Aleksandar Pavlovic, who beat Lukas Hradecky with a dipping first-time volley from 25 yards out.
Aleksandar Pavlovic ranges for Bayern Munich (Sven Hoppe/dpa through AP)
The house aspect dominated thereafter and had been inches away from going forward firstly of the second interval as Kane’s intelligent move discovered Serge Gnabry in area on the again publish, just for the Germany ahead’s first effort to hit the within of the publish, earlier than he thumped the rebound off the highest of the bar.
Bayern continued to push for a winner, however Leverkusen would be the happier of the 2 groups as Xabi Alonso’s champions stayed simply three factors behind the leaders after the opening 5 video games of the season.
Serge Gnabry comes even so near placing Bayern Munich forward within the second-half as he see his shot cannon off the publish then his follow-up hit the crossbar
What’s subsequent?
Sunday sixth October 5:30pm
Kick off 4:30pm
Bayern journey to Aston Villa within the Champions League on Tuesday evening (kick-off 8pm) after which to Eintracht Frankfurt per week on Sunday, dwell on Sky Sports activities Soccer (kick-off 4.30pm).
In the meantime, Leverkusen host AC Milan in Europe’s premier membership competitors on Tuesday night kick-off 8pm, earlier than entertaining Holstein Kiel subsequent Saturday (kick-off 2.30pm).
