Harry Kane says Bayern Munich “will never give up” after the England captain scored a stoppage-time winner against RB Leipzig to get the German giants back to winning ways.
Kane placed in a brilliant strike late on after also opening the scoring with a left-footed finish, before Benjamin Sesko scored for Leipzig.
The win was their first in three league games and keeps them eight points behind leaders Leverkusen.
“We have to push them,” said Kane.
“We need to keep doing what we’re doing. It was good to win this game and we need to go on a run until the end of the year.”
Kane has now scored 27 Bundesliga goals and 31 in all competitions since joining from Spurs in the summer.
He added: “We’ll never give up, we’ll never stop.”
Bayern remain second in the Bundesliga, eight points behind the unbeaten Bayer Leverkusen.
The win comes after Bayern this week confirmed head coach Thomas Tuchel will leave at the end of the season.
Bayern have been German champions in each of the past 11 seasons but face the possibility of ending the campaign without a trophy.
They lost in the German Super Cup in August, then went out of the German Cup in the second round to third-tier Saarbrucken in November.
Tuchel’s side lost 3-0 at Leverkusen on 10 February and 3-2 at Bochum last weekend. They were also beaten 1-0 by Lazio in the first leg of their Champions League last-16 tie in midweek.
Kane’s remarkable scoring continues
Kane is currently the top scorer in the Bundesliga, moving nine clear of Stuttgart’s Serhou Guirassy with this double.
He has also scored six more goals than any player in Europe’s top five leagues, with Paris St-Germain striker Kylian Mbappe next on 21.
Kane has already become the highest-scoring Englishman in a Bundesliga season, surpassing Kevin Keegan and Jadon Sancho.
His goal against Bochum last Saturday saw him become the quickest to reach 25 Bundesliga goals in one season, doing so in 22 games to beat the previous best mark of 25 by former Borussia Dortmund striker Erling Haaland. He also overtook Luca Toni’s Bayern record of 25 goals in a debut season.
However, the 30-year-old still has some way to go to break the Bundesliga record – 41 goals by former Bayern striker Robert Lewandowski in 2020-21.
Kane has 11 league games left this season and needs 14 goals to equal the tally.
He could also break his own top-scoring season, which was 41 goals in 48 games for Tottenham in 2017-18.
Line-ups
Bayern Munich
Formation 4-2-3-1
- 1Neuer
- 6Kimmich
- 4de LigtBooked at 59mins
- 15Dier
- 22Guerreiro
- 45PavlovicBooked at 38minsSubstituted forKim Min-jaeat 81′minutes
- 8Goretzka
- 10SanéSubstituted forTelat 65′minutes
- 25MüllerSubstituted forLaimerat 65′minutes
- 42MusialaBooked at 66minsSubstituted forChoupo-Motingat 84′minutes
- 9Kane
Substitutes
- 3Kim Min-jae
- 13Choupo-Moting
- 17Zaragoza
- 26Ulreich
- 27Laimer
- 34Zvonarek
- 39Tel
- 44Aznou
RB Leipzig
Formation 4-2-2-2
- 21Blaswich
- 39Henrichs
- 2SimakanBooked at 78mins
- 4OrbánBooked at 41mins
- 22RaumSubstituted forLukebaat 90+2′minutes
- 8HaidaraSubstituted forKamplat 74′minutes
- 24SchlagerBooked at 67mins
- 7Olmo
- 20SimonsSubstituted forElmasat 87′minutes
- 30SeskoSubstituted forBaumgartnerat 90+2′minutes
- 17OpendaSubstituted forPoulsenat 73′minutes
Substitutes
- 3Lenz
- 5Bitshiabu
- 6Elmas
- 9Poulsen
- 13Seiwald
- 14Baumgartner
- 23Lukeba
- 25Zingerle
- 44Kampl
- Referee:
- Sascha Stegemann
- Attendance:
- 75,000
Live Text
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Match ends, FC Bayern München 2, RB Leipzig 1.
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Second Half ends, FC Bayern München 2, RB Leipzig 1.
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Foul by Konrad Laimer (FC Bayern München).
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Xaver Schlager (RB Leipzig) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
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Attempt saved. Eljif Elmas (RB Leipzig) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Benjamin Henrichs.
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Substitution, RB Leipzig. Castello Lukeba replaces David Raum.
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Substitution, RB Leipzig. Christoph Baumgartner replaces Benjamin Sesko.
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Goal! FC Bayern München 2, RB Leipzig 1. Harry Kane (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Eric Choupo-Moting.
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Corner, FC Bayern München. Conceded by Mohamed Simakan.
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Substitution, RB Leipzig. Eljif Elmas replaces Xavi Simons.
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Corner, FC Bayern München. Conceded by Kevin Kampl.
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Attempt blocked. Mathys Tel (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Joshua Kimmich.
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Attempt blocked. Eric Choupo-Moting (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Leon Goretzka.
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Substitution, FC Bayern München. Eric Choupo-Moting replaces Jamal Musiala.
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Corner, RB Leipzig. Conceded by Joshua Kimmich.
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Substitution, FC Bayern München. Kim Min-Jae replaces Aleksandar Pavlovic.
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Foul by Leon Goretzka (FC Bayern München).
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Dani Olmo (RB Leipzig) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
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Attempt missed. Harry Kane (FC Bayern München) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Leon Goretzka with a headed pass.
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Attempt blocked. Mathys Tel (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Konrad Laimer.
