Kane opened the scoring with a penalty in the 19th minute, and a second-half hat trick saw him reach 33 Champions League goals—surpassing Wayne Rooney’s record of 30 to become the highest-scoring Englishman in the competition’s history.
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Despite the dominant scoreline, Bayern faced a brief scare early in the second half. Goalkeeper Manuel Neuer was forced off with an injury, and Zagreb quickly capitalized, netting twice in two minutes to narrow the score to 3-2 just five minutes after the break.
However, Bayern regained control, with former Crystal Palace winger Michael Olise scoring a brace on his Champions League debut, while Raphael Guerreiro, Leroy Sane, and Leon Goretzka each added goals to complete the emphatic victory.
“An amazing game — a bit of a crazy game,” Kane told DAZN.
“It’s the first time I’ve scored three (penalties) in a game. That doesn’t happen at all really.
“I practice my penalties, I have a good routine but to be honest I didn’t really know what to do for the third one, but thankfully I was able to put it away.”
Kane said Bayern “got away with” their second-half lapse but “against the top opposition we can get punished for that, so we need to sort that out”.
The six-time Champions League winners had won every one of their past 20 opening matches in the competition dating back to 2002-03.
The score is one goal better than Bayern’s record 8-2 win over Barcelona in the quarter-finals of the competition in 2020.
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