Red-hot Kane on target again as Bayern cruise
Harry Kane scored his ninth goal of the season to help Bayern Munich cruise to a 3-1 win over Mainz and climb to third in the Bundesliga.
Kane headed home from close range in the 16th minute after Kingsley Coman had given Bayern the lead following good work from Leroy Sane.
The hosts looked to have little to offer in terms of attacking threat but pulled a goal back in the 43rd minute when Anthony Caci found too much space on the left and rifled home. Mainz had a golden chance to level through Stefan Bell but his shot sailed narrowly wide in the 57th.
That proved costly as two minutes later Bayern made it 3-1 thanks to Leon Goretzka’s low drive from the edge of the box.
Bayern trail Bayer Leverkusen by two points who remain top thanks to a battling 2-1 win at Wolfsburg. Jeremie Frimpong and Alejandro Grimaldo scored either side of an equaliser from Maxence Lacroix to secure a seventh win in eight league matches.
Bundesliga top-scorer Serhou Guirassy scored again in Stuttgart’s 3-0 win at Union Berlin. Guirassy took his tally to 14 goals in eight games by converting Stuttgart’s first chance in the 16th minute but had to go off with a hamstring injury in the 30th. Silas Katompa Mvumpa doubled the lead on a counterattack in the 81st, before Deniz Undav completed the scoring with a header in the 88th.
It was Stuttgart’s sixth straight victory and stretched Union’s losing run across all competitions to eight games.
Loïs Openda scored twice as RB Leipzig won 3-1 at promoted Darmstadt, Eintracht Frankfurt won 3-1 at Hoffenheim while Freiburg defeated Bochum 2-1.
A late header from captain Dani Carvajal secured Real Madrid a 1-1 draw at Sevilla in La Liga.
Real had two early efforts disallowed and fell behind after an own goal by
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