Harry Kane wins 1st profession title as Bayern Munich turns into Bundesliga champion

The “curse” has been lifted.

Harry Kane can lastly have fun his first profession title after Bayern Munich turned Bundesliga champion with a bit of assist from Freiburg on Sunday.

Freiburg drew with second-placed Bayer Leverkusen 2-2 to depart Bayern an unassailable eight factors away from the 2024 champion with two rounds of the German league remaining.

Kane had by no means received a title in a profession of runner-up finishes and particular person prime scorer awards with Tottenham and England, main some to talk of a “curse” towards a participant thought-about one of many world’s greatest forwards.

Kane was able to have fun Saturday when Bayern appeared set to win 3-2 in Leipzig. However Yussuf Poulsen equalized with the final kick of the sport for Leipzig to attract 3-3 and postpone Bayern’s celebration for at some point not less than.

“Subsequent week, Harry!” teammate Thomas Mller wrote on Instagram.

He didn’t have to attend that lengthy.

Leverkusen performed with out conviction in Freiburg, figuring out that second place was already secured and that it solely had a mathematical probability of defending its title with Bayern having a far superior objective distinction.

Maximilian Eggestein fired the house crew forward earlier than the break and an own-goal from Piero Hincapie after it put Freiburg firmly in management.

Leverkusen needed to wait until the 82nd minute for Florian Wirtz to drag one again along with his crew’s first shot on course. Jonathan Tah equalized with the subsequent in stoppage time, but it surely made no distinction for the brand new league champion.

It’s Bayern’s record-extending thirty fourth German championship together with the primary for the membership in 1932. All of the others got here after the Bundesliga’s formation in 1963.

Champions League struggle heats up

Freiburg’s draw stored it fourth within the remaining place for Champions League qualification, only a level forward of a resurgent Borussia Dortmund and two forward of Leipzig.

Solely the highest 4 groups qualify for Europe’s premier membership competitors.

Earlier, Holstein Kiel boosted its hopes of avoiding the drop with a 3-1 win at Augsburg. It moved Kiel one level behind Heidenheim, which occupies the relegation playoff place. Kiel subsequent performs Freiburg, then Dortmund.

Eintracht Frankfurt performed at Mainz later Sunday.