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Kane and Mbappe at the double for Bayern and PSG

2024-03-06 HKT 08:31
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  • Kane now has 33 goals in 33 games since arriving at Bayern Munich. Photo: AP
    Kane now has 33 goals in 33 games since arriving at Bayern Munich. Photo: AP
Harry Kane scored a goal in each half as Bayern Munich beat Lazio 3-0 on Tuesday to reach the Champions League quarter-finals 3-1 on aggregate, while PSG eased past Real Sociedad

Kane headed Bayern level in the tie in the 38th minute, cancelling out Lazio's lead from the first leg with his first Champions League knockout goal in five years.

Thomas Mueller doubled the hosts' lead with a clever header before half-time and Kane doubled up in the 66th minute, tapping in the rebound from a Leroy Sane shot to seal Bayern's progress to the next round.

Bayern kept their slim hopes of silverware this season alive while likely giving outgoing coach Thomas Tuchel a stay of execution until the quarter-finals in April.

With Tuchel allowed to keep the seat warm until the summer, the coach promised to be more "ruthless".

On Tuesday, he benched big-money signing Kim Min-jae for Eric Dier, while moving Joshua Kimmich – a fixture in midfield for Bayern and Germany – to right-back.

Kylian Mbappe lethally fired Paris Saint-Germain into the Champions League quarter-finals with a brace in a 2-1 win at Real Sociedad, his team cruising through 4-1 on aggregate.

The electric Mbappe was impossible for Real Sociedad to shackle and his strikes after 15 and 56 minutes left the Ligue 1 leaders with a simple night in the north of Spain.

"We are very happy, it was the objective," Mbappe said.

"We wanted to qualify but today we also wanted to win and give ourselves a bit of an easier game. That is what we did.

"We had a clear game plan. We managed to score early and, above all, we managed to avoid getting into any major difficulty." (AFP)

Kane and Mbappe at the double for Bayern and PSG