Forward Harry Kane once scored in both half to guide the German champion Bayern Munich to a 3-1 victory over Chelsea in their UEFA Champions League opener on Wednesday.
England’s striker scored the second goal of Bayern with a fine of 27 minutes after a goal of Chelsea’s Trevoh Chalobah in the 20th minute in the 20th minute.
Chelsea gathered briefly, with Cole Palmer who withdrew one two minutes later, but Kane, who has already scored five goals in three Bundesliga matches, again hit with a clinical low finish in the 63rd to establish the nerves of the Bayern.
Bayern, who crushed Hamburg SV 5-0 in the Bundesliga on Saturday, started his UCL season with a victory for the 22nd consecutive time and set his undefeated run over all the competitions, while Chelsea tasted the defeat for the first time this season.
The winner of the Club World Cup, unbeaten in the Premier League, had an early chance with Enzo Fernandez for the goal, but Konrad Laimer blocked the shot at the last minute.
Bayern scored with his first chance of the game after Michael Olise cut the box in cut and Chalobah, under pressure from Bayern’s Dayot Upamecano, started the ball for his own goal.
It doubled his lead in the 27th after Kane was brought down in the box and stepped up to convert the resulting spot kick. However, the joy of it was short -lived at Palmer and made his first start after a groin injury, ending a movement that he started in Chelsea’s half two minutes later.
With the host who stepped on the gas after the break, the English side Robert Sanchez had to thank for keeping the score tight after he put a Kane shot in the 57th for the first time and then a minute later a minute later.
Read also | Champions League 2025-26: PSG Neverhelms Atalanta 4-0; Bodo/Glimt Snatches pull against Slavia Prague
But he couldn’t do anything to stop Kane Curling in his low shot after a terrible defense of the visitors.
Kane, who scored 21 goals in the Champions League for both Tottenham and Bayern, is now one of only three players with 20+ goals scored for two different clubs in the Champions League.
Bayern keeper Manuel Neuer, who became the oldest Bayern player in a Champions League match at the age of 39, had little to do in the second half and was only defeated once in the 90th when a defense-splitting pass by Andrey Santos Palmer only sent for his efforts to be arranged.
Thuram grabs double while Inter Milan lit off Ajax
Marcus Thuram put two at the head goals when Inter Milan banished the demons of the final of last season and won the opening match of the new group campaign 2-0 away at Ajax Amsterdam.
Inter was hammered 5-0 by Paris Saint-Germain in the Final of May in Munich and came in the collision on Wednesday in the Johan Cruyff Arena after successive defeats in Serie A, but turned out to be too strong for his Dutch host with the French international central stage.
Thuram stole at the nearby pole, attacked Hakan Calhanoglu’s corner and the Ajax defenders stood in front of handing in a powerful header three minutes before the break to open the score.
His second goal came two minutes in the second half from another Calhanoglu corner, but this time it was central and climbed over the home defense to easily score.
Published on September 18, 2025
:max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(999x0:1001x2)/hot-in-cleveland-reunion-091925-e87dac3243f14080a190cd154f8bd388.jpg?w=238&resize=238,178&ssl=1 "Valerie Bertinelli sorprendió la reunión emocional con calientes en Cleveland coprotagonistas")
