Bayern’s Harry Kane scores his facet’s third purpose throughout the Champions League spherical of 16 second leg soccer match between FC Bayern Munich and Lazio on the Allianz Arena stadium in Munich, Germany, on March 5, 2024.
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Bayern Munich prime scorer Harry Kane struck as soon as in both half to steer the Germans to a 3-Zero win over Italy’s Lazio on Tuesday and into the Champions League quarterfinals with an 3-1 mixture victory, reigniting title hopes amongst their followers.
Kane headed in for the lead within the 38th minute to cancel out the Lazio’s first leg 1-Zero benefit after which tapped of their third purpose on the rebound within the 66th after Thomas Mueller’s first half stoppage time effort had made it 2-0.
The win offers immediate reduction for coach Thomas Tuchel, who will go away on the finish of the season, and his workforce as they’d received simply certainly one of their final 5 matches in all competitions previous to Tuesday and are at present 10 factors off the highest within the Bundesliga.
Lazio have been on the backfoot from the beginning and waited to hit the Germans on the break.
Ciro Immobile’s header was their finest likelihood nevertheless it sailed narrowly large a minute earlier than Kane bagged his first knockout stage purpose within the competitors in 5 years with a diving header.
The Italians, bidding for his or her first quarter-final spot in 24 years, had succeeded for half an hour in protecting Bayern exterior the field however might do nothing when Kane, who had missed an earlier likelihood, headed in from workforce mate Raphael Guerreiro’s miskick.
Jamal Musiala virtually added one other seconds later however his sliding shot simply missed the goal earlier than Thomas Mueller headed in a Matthijs de Ligt volley on the stroke of halftime.
Kane now has 27 Champions League objectives, with Wayne Rooney the one Englishman to have scored extra within the competitors (30).
The former Tottenham Hotspur striker killed off any hopes of an Italian comeback within the 68th, tapping in on the rebound after Leroy Sane’s shot was palmed into his path.
The Bavarians refused to step off the gasoline and Mueller virtually scored a second himself however keeper Ivan Provedel tipped his shot onto the publish within the 71st.
Bayern have now made it to a minimum of the ultimate eight in 12 of the final 13 campaigns.
Mbappe shines in opposition to Real Sociedad
Paris St Germain’s Kylian Mbappe scored twice to guide them into the Champions League quarter-finals with a snug 2-1 win away to Real Sociedad of their last-16 second leg that wrapped up a 4-1 mixture victory on Tuesday.
Bidding to win their first Champions League title, a disciplined PSG made essentially the most of their probabilities from counter assaults, with the lightning quick Mbappe a relentless menace.
Mbappe was having fun with an impressed evening and his velocity and agility have been an excessive amount of for the hosts’ defence to deal with. He was nearly unstoppable down left channel and Tuesday’s brace means he has scored 11 of PSG’s final 15 Champions League knockout objectives.
Mbappe created a few alternatives early on earlier than scoring the opener with a superb curling strike within the 15th minute.
After receiving an extended move from Ousmane Dembele, he surged into the field, darting in from the byline and feigning to shoot, earlier than shifting the ball out of his ft once more and creating simply sufficient house to fireside a curling effort into the far nook.
Mbappe scored once more within the 56th minute as he took a Lee Kang-in through ball in his stride earlier than bursting into the field and beating the goalkeeper at his close to publish.
Mikel Merino lastly netted a comfort purpose within the 89th minute with a deflected strike, nevertheless it was too little too late to forestall PSG reaching the Champions League quarter-finals for the primary time in three years.