Misfiring Harry Kane Wants To Shake Off Droop As Bayern Munich Go to Freiburg | Soccer Information

Bayern Munich striker Harry Kane will hope to beat a hunch in entrance of aim when his aspect journey to face Freiburg on Saturday. With 16 targets in 16 video games this season, Kane nonetheless tops the Bundesliga goalscoring charts, however the numbers bely a pattern which can fear the league leaders. Kane has not scored from open play since November, a run of seven video games in all competitions, though the England captain’s outstanding reliability from the spot has glossed over the dip in kind. He has scored two penalties in that point, extending his tally to 27 consecutive spot-kicks transformed for membership and nation courting again to his 2022 World Cup quarter-final miss in opposition to France.

In Wednesday’s 3-0 Champions League loss at Feyenoord, Kane and Bayern had been dominant with the ball however had been unable to transform various probabilities.

The 31-year-old missed 4 video games in December with a hamstring pressure and is clearly not but again to one hundred pc.

“After all we’d like his targets,” Bayern’s sporting director Max Eberl stated of Kane.

“He hasn’t scored however he is aware of that and might be extra important of himself than anybody else.

“He is skilled many highs and some lows. If there’s anybody who can deal with a dip, it is Harry Kane.”

Freiburg coach Julian Schuster stated Thursday his aspect will likely be dealing with a Bayern aspect stung by defeat.

“When a group loses, there’s robotically a bit of additional spice subsequent time round. And everyone knows what it means when Bayern undergo a loss.”

In his first season in cost, Schuster has his aspect sitting eighth. Freiburg are notably robust of their Black Forest dwelling, the place they’ve misplaced simply as soon as in 9 video games.

Schuster stated Bayern’s midweek loss exhibits it’s doable “to seek out gaps and to harm them”.

Leverkusen head to RB Leipzig on Saturday, figuring out they may shut the hole on the prime to only one level in the event that they win and Bayern lose.

Xabi Alonso’s defending champions had their very own midweek setback, shedding 2-1 at Atletico Madrid regardless of taking the lead in Spain.

Leipzig are 10 factors behind Leverkusen however stay the one aspect to have crushed them within the league since Might 2023, successful 3-2 away in August.

Leipzig defender David Raum says Leverkusen are “one other calibre” of group however promised “to make it as tough as doable for them”.

Dortmund’s 2-1 Champions League loss at Bologna on Tuesday was adopted a day later by the sacking of coach Nuri Sahin.

Mike Tullberg, Sahin’s interim substitute, will likely be on the sidelines in Saturday’s dwelling conflict with Werder Bremen tasked with getting Dortmund again to successful methods.

Final season’s Champions League finalists sit tenth within the league and have gained simply certainly one of their previous 9 video games in all competitions.

One to look at: Patrik SchickWhile Kane could also be struggling for his greatest degree, the identical can’t be stated of Bayer Leverkusen frontman Patrik Schick.

The Czech striker has scored 12 targets in his previous eight video games — none of which have come from the penalty spot.

Schick’s kind means Leverkusen haven’t missed the injured Victor Boniface, who seems set to return to the squad this weekend.

The 28-year-old Schick spent the 2019-20 season on mortgage at Leipzig, netting 10 targets in 28 video games, however he has by no means scored in opposition to his former employers.

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