#harry-kane

#harry-kane

Tuesday evening's Champions League action saw convincing wins for Bayern Munich, Marseille and Atletico Madrid, while both Inter and Atalanta also picked up important victories. Harry Kane, fresh from becoming the quickest player to reach 100 goals for any club in Europe's top-five leagues, bagged a brace as Bayern ran out 5-1 winners over Cypriot champions Pafos. Kane opened the scoring after a quarter of an hour before Raphael Guerreiro and Nicolas Jackson extended the German club's lead.

The English striker has scored 100 goals in just over two seasons for Bayern. The 32-year-old forward is showing no signs of decline and remains on track to have another season with more than 50 goals. A move for Kane was pursued one year after the departure of Robert Lewandowski. The Polish striker sealed a move to FC Barcelona after winning every possible trophy in the Bavarian colours.

"It could be that I'm trying to pass the ball faster. I recently talked to the coach about it, and he suggested why I might not be able to get into the situations I normally get into. That is, I'm making the game fast with a dribble or a pass. He said it could be because we press a lot, and I run a lot. For example, the running stats: I'm always at the top there because I try to push hard and do what the coach asks,"

News broke this week that Harry Kane will have to let Bayern Munich know he wants to leave next summer during the winter transfer window - giving the club ample notice to find a successor. Will it happen? Will this be a distraction? How realistic is that Kane opts to sign an extension with Bayern? Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea, Newcastle United, Real Madrid, and FC Barcelona all want him.

Before we start this week, anyone who has spent time following football in Germany knows that there is a hat trick and then there is a Dreierpack. We must always make a clear distinction. The former refers only to a pure hat trick, following strict guidelines: all three goals must be scored by the same player in one half of play, with no goals scored by anyone else in between. That takes some doing.