European Football: Harry Kane Hits Hat-trick And Luis Díaz Off The Mark As Bayern Thrash Leipzig

Harry Kane scored a second-half hat-trick and Michael Olise bagged 2 goals arsenic champions Bayern Munich obliterated visitors RB Leipzig 6-0 successful nan Bundesliga opener putting down an early marker.

Kane opened his relationship successful nan 64th infinitesimal earlier bagging 2 much goals successful nan 74th and 77th to complete Bayern’s awesome show of spot successful nan play premiere.

Vincent Kompany’s team, who lifted nan German Supercup past week pinch a 2-1 triumph complete Stuttgart, looked much than fresh for nan convention commencement pinch a precocious pressing crippled that troubled Leipzig, and immoderate crisp finishing.

“We wanted to nonstop a connection from nan first crippled astatine location and that’s what we did today,” said Kane. “We performed astatine a very precocious level and were efficient. We won 6-0 truthful we can’t complain. After half-time we were 3-0 up, I said to myself that I request to get connected nan scoresheet.”

They had nan visitors connected nan backfoot from nan commencement and they struck doubly successful 5 minutes to quickly put nan crippled to bed. On some occasions they outplayed Leipzig pinch a speedy passing operation astatine nan separator of nan box. Olise drilled successful from a tight perspective successful nan 27th infinitesimal and caller signing Luis Díaz notched his first convention extremity for Bayern connected his Bundesliga debut pinch a powerful changeable disconnected nan crossbar successful nan 32nd.

Michael Olise scores Bayern’s 3rd extremity of nan evening. Photograph: Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images

With Leipzig dazed, Serge Gnabry thought he had scored a 3rd extremity for nan hosts successful nan 40th but his changeable was deflected connected to nan crossbar. Two minutes later, however, he delivered a well-timed assistance for France world Olise to slot successful his 2nd extremity of nan evening.

Kane past picked up nan baton successful nan 2nd half, getting connected to nan scoresheet successful nan 64th infinitesimal aft early activity from Díaz. He past threaded a debased changeable past 2 defenders to make it 5-0 earlier completing his hat-trick a small later.

Paris Saint-Germain edged past Angers 1-0 successful Ligue 1 arsenic Fabián Ruiz’s second-half onslaught secured a location triumph for past season’s treble winners, who laboured done a frustrating nighttime that included a missed punishment from Ousmane Dembélé.

Manager Luis Enrique had cautioned that it would return a fewer games for his broadside to find their rhythm, pinch small pre-season mentation aft reaching nan Club World Cup last successful July, and for now nan coach has been proven right.

PSG were ascendant and successful complete power passim nan game, but they struggled to really frighten nan Angers goal, particularly successful nan early stages. Midway done nan opening half, nan referee went disconnected injured, giving an animated Luis Enrique a chance to speak to his players.

The replacement charismatic was soon astatine nan bosom of nan action, awarding a punishment for Marius Courcoul’s foul connected João Neves. PSG, however, spurned nan cleanable chance to unlock nan game, pinch Dembélé, who scored 35 goals crossed each competitions past season, sending his spot footwear sailing complete nan bar, successful what was nan location side’s first existent effort connected goal.

Their only different decent chance earlier nan break came erstwhile Désiré Doué coiled a changeable from extracurricular nan area, which drifted narrowly past nan acold post. The extremity yet came 5 minutes aft nan interval. Doué’s effort astatine a walk wrong nan container was trim retired by nan Angers midfielder Haris Belkebla, but nan shot fell kindly for Ruiz who drilled his changeable debased into nan acold area of nan net.

After nan game, while nan squad celebrated past season’s trophy haul, nan keeper Gianluigi Donnarumma made an affectional farewell to nan PSG supporters. The Italian, instrumental successful PSG’s caller successes, has been told to find different club, and he was visibly moved erstwhile his teammates encouraged him towards nan fans down nan extremity who chanted his name.