Harry Kane scored from inside his own half on the method to a Bundesliga hat technique and Manuel Neuer played for Bayern Munich for the veryfirst time this year as the German safeguarding champs routed Darmstadt 8-0 Saturday, with 3 red cards in the veryfirst half and 8 objectives after the period.
The 3 first-half reds — consistingof 2 for Darmstadt — were a veryfirst in Bundesliga history. Bayern then scored all 8 objectives in under 40 minutes in the 2nd half. Kane got the 5th with a magnificent long shot from the Bayern half after finding the goalkeeper was off his line.
Goalkeeper Neuer was cheered by Bayern fans on his return to action — after breaking his leg snowboarding while on holiday in December — before an early shock when Bayern went down to 10 males after simply 5 minutes.
Joshua Kimmich offered away the ball exterior his own charge location and fouled Marvin Mehlem as he attempted to get it back, earning a straight red card for a rejecting a clear scoring possibility.
By halftime, though, Bayern had 10 gamers to Darmstadt’s 9.
Darmstadt’s Klaus Gjasula was sentout off for a last-man nasty on Konrad Laimer. In an uncommon case of video evaluation assisting to reverse 2 choices at once, the referee atfirst granted a charge and a yellow card, however then altered his choice to a red and a totallyfree kick exterior the box. There was a 3rd sending-off for the verysame offense before halftime when Matej Maglica brought down Kane.
When Kane opened the scoring with a 51st-minute diving header, Darmstadt collapsed.
Leroy Sané and Jamal Musiala scored twotimes each, and Thomas Müller assoonas, as well as Kane’s long-range strike, as Bayern promptly turned the videogame into a thrashing. Kane finished his hat technique off a pass from Sané in the 88th for his 12th objective in 9 videogames giventhat signingupwith Bayern from Tottenham in August.
Bayern dealswith Borussia Dortmund in the “Klassiker” next week.
Reporting by The Associated Press.
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