Penalty kick specialist Harry Kane knocked the ball into the net from a special situation.
Harry Kane second-half penalty kick goal in the Bundesliga gave Bayern Munich a 1-0 away win over Borussia Mönchengladbach on Saturday. Bayern restored its league lead to four points, which it also had during the winter break.
Kane has now managed 26 consecutive penalties for both club and country since missing against France in the 2022 World Cup quarter-finals.
The captain of the English national team sent the goalkeeper of Gladbach Moritz Nicolas into the wrong corner in the 68th minute and sealed the points pot for Bayern with his 15th league goal of the season.
In total, out of his 24 goals this season, Kane has completed ten penalty kicks.
Bayern dominated the game sovereignly, and the Home team only had one chance to score against Bayern’s top eight in the match. In total, the league leaders had 23 scoring attempts, Mönchengladbach scored five.
– Basically, there was a difficult away game ahead, for which we had prepared excellently. In the first half, we were really good, even though we didn’t manage to score. The match can always be difficult when you lead it by only one goal, but we kept our composure until the end, rejoiced Bayern’s captain Vincent Kompany.
Manuel Neuerwho made his return from a month’s sick leave, did not record a single save between the visitors’ posts.
With the defeat, Mönchengladbach dropped three places in the series to tenth. The home match was the first of the Bundesliga season in which they missed a goal.
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