{"id":366267,"date":"2025-08-23T03:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T03:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/366267\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T03:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T03:23:11","slug":"european-football-harry-kane-hits-hat-trick-and-luis-diaz-off-the-mark-as-bayern-thrash-leipzig-european-club-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/366267\/","title":{"rendered":"European football: Harry Kane hits hat-trick and Luis D\u00edaz off the mark as Bayern thrash Leipzig | European club football"},"content":{"rendered":"

Harry Kane scored a second-half hat-trick and Michael Olise bagged two goals as champions Bayern Munich<\/strong> obliterated visitors RB Leipzig<\/strong> 6-0 in the Bundesliga opener, putting down an early marker.<\/p>\n

Kane opened his account in the 64th minute before hitting two more goals in the 74th and 77th to complete Bayern\u2019s impressive show of strength.<\/p>\n

Vincent Kompany\u2019s team, who lifted the German Supercup last week with a 2-1 win over Stuttgart, looked more than ready for the league start with a high pressing game that troubled Leipzig, and some sharp finishing.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted to send a statement from the first game at home and that\u2019s what we did today,\u201d said Kane. \u201cWe performed at a very high level and were efficient. We won 6-0 so we can\u2019t complain. After half-time we were 3-0 up, I said to myself that I need to get on the scoresheet.\u201d<\/p>\n

They had the visitors on the backfoot from the start and they struck twice in five minutes to quickly put the game to bed. On both occasions they outplayed Leipzig with a quick passing combination at the edge of the box. Olise drilled in from a tight angle in the 27th minute and new signing Luis D\u00edaz notched his first league goal for Bayern on his Bundesliga<\/a> debut with a powerful shot off the crossbar in the 32nd.<\/p>\n

With Leipzig dazed, Serge Gnabry thought he had scored a third goal for the hosts in the 40th but his shot was deflected on to the crossbar. Two minutes later, however, he delivered a well-timed assist for France international Olise to slot in his second goal of the evening.<\/p>\n

Kane then picked up the baton in the second half, getting on to the scoresheet in the 64th minute after early work from D\u00edaz. He then threaded a low shot past two defenders to make it 5-0 before completing his hat-trick a little later.<\/p>\n

Michael Olise scores Bayern\u2019s third goal of the evening. Photograph: Alexander Hassenstein\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Paris Saint-Germain<\/strong> edged past Angers<\/strong> 1-0 in Ligue 1 as Fabi\u00e1n Ruiz\u2019s second-half strike secured a home victory for last season\u2019s treble winners, who laboured through a frustrating night that included a missed penalty from Ousmane Demb\u00e9l\u00e9.<\/p>\n

Luis Enrique had cautioned that it would take a few games for his side to find their rhythm, with little pre-season preparation after reaching the Club World Cup final in July, and for now the coach has been proven right.<\/p>\n

PSG were dominant and in complete control throughout the game, but they struggled to really threaten the Angers goal, especially in the early stages. Midway through the opening half, the referee went off injured, giving an animated Luis Enrique a chance to speak to his players.<\/p>\n

The replacement official was soon at the heart of the action, awarding a penalty for Marius Courcoul\u2019s foul on Jo\u00e3o Neves. PSG, however, spurned the perfect chance to unlock the game, with Demb\u00e9l\u00e9, who scored 35 goals across all competitions last season, sending his spot kick sailing over the bar, in what was the home side\u2019s first real attempt on goal.<\/p>\n

Their only other decent chance before the break came when D\u00e9sir\u00e9 Dou\u00e9 curled a shot from outside the area, which drifted narrowly past the far post. The goal finally came five minutes after the interval. Dou\u00e9\u2019s attempt at a pass inside the box was cut out by the Angers midfielder Haris Belkebla, but the ball fell kindly for Ruiz who drilled his shot low into the far corner of the net.<\/p>\n

After the game, while the team celebrated last season\u2019s trophy haul, the keeper Gianluigi Donnarumma made an emotional farewell to the PSG supporters. The Italian, instrumental in PSG\u2019s recent successes, has been told to find another club<\/a>, and he was visibly moved when his teammates encouraged him towards the fans behind the goal who chanted his name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harry Kane scored a second-half hat-trick and Michael Olise bagged two goals as champions Bayern Munich obliterated visitors…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,4884,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-366267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115075940587492401","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}