Kane is eager for Bayern to go all the way in the Champions League and knows that’s the expectation.
Bayern Munich have gotten off to a flying start this season across all competitions and, after their Bundesliga win over Hoffenheim at the weekend, have now won seven straight matches stretching back to the Franz Beckenbauer Supercup triumph over VfB Stuttgart in mid-August. They’re at the top of the Bundesliga table, on to the second round of the DFB-Pokal, and won their Champions League opener against Chelsea 3-1 at the Allianz Arena. Aside from surrendering multiple goal leads in different matches (but still winning them), Bayern have hardly put a foot wrong and they’re still without the services of superstars Jamal Musiala and Alphonso Davies through injury in addition to a handful of other injuries to the squad.
Last season, Bayern was able to see it through in the Bundesliga, but fell short in the Champions League after fighting their way through the playoff round of the new format of the competition. Losses to Aston Villa, Barcelona and Feyenoord saw that they had to squeak through the playoffs over two legs against Celtic, but they still very nearly got past Inter in the quarterfinals with an injury-hit squad.
This time around, the goal for Bayern is to win the Champions League in addition to the Bundesliga for the first time since the 2019/20 season under Hansi Flick. After Bayern’s opening win over Chelsea, Harry Kane echoed that very sentiment speaking to the press in the mixed zone at the Allianz Arena. “That’s the aim (winning the Champions League). We have a long mountain to climb, but at a club like this, that’s always the expectation,” he stressed to Sky Sports News.
While, on paper, Bayern’s next match in the competition should yield three points against Pafos, two of the next three matches in the competition come against Paris Saint-Germain, last season’s winners of the competition, and Arsenal. Those two encounters are preceded by a home match against Club Brugge, who won their opening match of the competition in emphatic style, beating AS Monaco 4-1.
Bayern Munich will get some down time…not much, but some.
The Bavarians are not back in action until Friday against Werder Bremen, so a day or two of rest will not be such a bad thing for a squad coming off of an arduous week.
Let’s check in on where things stand with Bayern Munich and some other hot topics as well. This is what we have on tap for this edition of the Bavarian Podcast Works Show:
- A heat check on the position groups.
- Why were so many fans unhappy with a 4-1 win over Hoffenheim?
- People were quick to bury Lennart Karl, and how about that resurgent effort from Kim Min-jae.
- Could this season convince Harry Kane to see out his deal and what would it take for Kane to win the Ballon d’Or?
- An update on the striker market for 2026 — with notes on Kane, Dušan Vlahović, and Erling Haaland.
- A farewell to a legend.
Category: General Sports
