In the first leg defeat against Inter Milan, Bavaria also fails and his weak opportunities for opportunities. Kane puzzles over his own weakness.
Harry Kane pursued the gross chance after the bitter 1-2 defeat of FC Bayern against Inter Milan until late into the night. After all, it was an extremely crucial of the quarter-final first leg of the Champions League. In the 26th minute of the game, Kane was perfectly released by Michael Olise. From a short distance he circulated the ball past goalkeeper Yann Sommer – but also at the goal. Kane missed Kane to achieve the 1-0 for Bavaria and the game in which the Munich team then fell behind by Lautaro Martínez (38th).
Usually the top striker does not leave such top -class scoring chances. The captain of the English national team himself knows that too well. “It really doesn’t happen to me very often. But that’s the life of a striker. Sometimes it happens,” he said after the game in the catacombs of the Munich arena. Of course, he still had the crucial scene in mind. “That was one of these moments. The ball goes a little too far out and hits the post.”
No question that Kane did not get this crucial moment in his thoughts for the last time. “You always think about it,” he admitted. “I always analyze my game after the matches.”
He had already experienced enough moments in his career “in which my final quality was very high,” said Kane. “Today was just one of these games in which it didn’t work. I could have scored a hat trick today, and in the end I didn’t score.” In the decisive second leg on Wednesday in Milan, Bavaria will definitely need his goals so that the dream of reaching the final in the Allianz Arena, the “Finale Dahoam”, does not burst for Kane and the Munich. The British “Guardian” wrote of a “steady chance”, the Spanish “Marca” of an “incomprehensible” miss.
But it is not the first time that Kane leaves good chances in important games this season. Among other things, at the 0: 3 in Rotterdam at the end of January, he had left several promising options. Afterwards, his critics even thought he could only meet by penalty. Overall, his quota speaks of 34 goals (and 12 templates) in 40 competitive games but also for him this season.
“It is part of football, you have to live with ups and downs,” said Kane, who could not be discouraged by his frustration moment. “The good thing is, I had chances. That is the positive,” he said. And that is exactly what he personally takes into the second leg in Italy.
Overall, Kane pulled “a lot of positive” from the bitter first leg defeat. “We have to be confident,” he said. “We analyzed our games and mistakes all season and got better. It is no different now.”
Joshua Kimmich also saw that a great potential for improvement in Bavaria is, especially in the exploitation of opportunities. “We already had some good options, but Inter was much more effective,” he said. “They had their two or three chances that they then used ice -cold. We had five or six good options that we did not use.” Especially against a defensive like that of Inter, it is not so easy to play out such a variety of opportunities at all.