Vincent Kompany’s Bayern Munich maintained their unbeaten begin to the Bundesliga season after drawing 1-1 with champions Bayer Leverkusen on the Allianz Enviornment, though the Bavarians did lose Harry Kane to harm late on.
The sport will probably be greatest remembered for 2 spectacular long-range first-half strikes as first Robert Andrich opened the scoring simply previous the half-hour mark after accumulating Granit Xhaka’s layoff, earlier than drilling a low shot into the underside nook previous a helpless Manuel Neuer.
Leverkusen’s Robert Andrich (second proper) celebrates after scoring the opener (AP Photograph/Matthias Schrader)
That aim got here fully in opposition to the run of play, though it didn’t take Munich lengthy to equalise after one other second of brilliance, this time from Aleksandar Pavlovic, who beat Lukas Hradecky with a dipping first-time volley from 25 yards out.
Aleksandar Pavlovic ranges for Bayern Munich (Sven Hoppe/dpa by way of AP)
The house aspect dominated thereafter and had been inches away from going forward at first of the second interval as Kane’s intelligent cross discovered Serge Gnabry in area on the again put up, just for the Germany ahead’s first effort to hit the within of the put up, earlier than he thumped the rebound off the highest of the bar.
Bayern continued to push for a winner, solely to see Kane, who was largely nameless all through after failing to have a single shot in a league sport for the primary time in over three years, limping off late on with a leg harm in what will probably be a fear for each Kompany and interim England supervisor Lee Carsley.
Serge Gnabry comes even so near placing Bayern Munich forward within the second-half as he see his shot cannon off the put up then his follow-up hit the crossbar
Kane did give a optimistic replace on the harm when strolling by way of the combined zone after the sport, saying “I assume I’ll be able to play” [against Aston Villa in the Champions League on Tuesday].
Leverkusen, in the meantime, would be the happier of the 2 groups as Xabi Alonso’s champions stayed simply three factors behind the leaders after the opening 5 video games of the season.
What’s subsequent?
Sunday sixth October 5:30pm
Kick off 4:30pm
Bayern journey to Aston Villa within the Champions League on Tuesday night time (kick-off 8pm) after which to Eintracht Frankfurt per week on Sunday, stay on Sky Sports activities Soccer (kick-off 4.30pm).
In the meantime, Leverkusen host AC Milan in Europe’s premier membership competitors on Tuesday night kick-off 8pm, earlier than entertaining Holstein Kiel subsequent Saturday (kick-off 2.30pm).
