Bayern beats Eintracht 2-1 before the semi-final duel in ‘Champions’

Madrid. Three days before facing Real Madrid in the first leg of the Champions League semi-finals, Bayern Munich extended its good streak by beating Eintracht Frankfurt at home this Saturday (2-1), with two goals from its striker Harry Kane, still with powder reserves in the final stretch of the season.

The other German team present in the semi-finals also played at the same time. ChampionsBorussia Dortmund, although in their case they lost 4-1 against a direct rival like Leipzig.

With 31 matches played, Bayern has 69 points, 11 less than Bayer Leverkusen (80), which has already secured a first German champion title in its history and will host Stuttgart this Saturday (3, 63 points) .

Kane adds and continues

The Bavarian victory, third in a row in the Bundesliga, came thanks to a double from English striker Harry Kane (9, 61 from a penalty), author of his 34th and 35th goals of the season in the Bundesliga.

The captain of the English team still needs to score six goals in the last three league games to reach Robert Lewandowski’s record (41 goals in the 2020-2021 season).

Kane has scored against 16 of the 17 Bundesliga teams he has faced this season, with only Freiburg’s defense managing to contain the 30-year-old English striker in the league doubleheader.

In the history of the Bundesliga, only Gerd Müller (1966-1967 and 1969-1970 with Bayern), Ailton (2003-2004 with Werder Bremen) and Robert Lewandowski (2019-2020 and 2020-2021 with Bayern) can boast a fact like that in a season.

Thomas Tuchel’s men thus approach the match against Real Madrid in the best possible way on Tuesday (7:00 p.m. GMT) in the first leg of the semi-finals of Champions.

And the days before the game were not peaceful in the Bavarian capital, with a clash through the media between coach Thomas Tuchel, forced by his management to take the exit door at the end of the season, and the president of honor of the club, Uli Hoeness.

The latter reproached the coach on Friday for not making the young players improve. “He is light years from reality,” Tuchel responded to the microphone of the Sky broadcaster, confessing that he was “hurt in the honor of his coach.”

Leipzig’s move to the Champions League

On the other hand, Borussia Dortmund fell with a crash on Leipzig’s field, four days before hosting Paris SG at its Westfalenstadion.

Edin Terzic’s men, executioners of Atlético de Madrid in the quarterfinals, opened the scoring through Jadon Sancho, before being buried by the goals of Loïs Openda, after a great pass from the Dutch Xavi Simons, Benjamin Sesko, Mohamed Simakan and Christoph Baumgartner .

The locals took an important step towards fourth place at the end of the season, synonymous with qualification for the next Champions League, with now five points ahead of Dortmund with three games remaining.

To dispute the Champions Next season, Dortmund will presumably have to go through the additional ticket offered to the two best countries in European competitions in the 23-24 season, which extends its arms to Germany, before the semi-finals on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

Beyond the two “big ones” immersed in ChampionsWolfsburg (12) and Werder Bremen (10) beat away from home two teams that surpass them in the table, Freiburg (7, 2-1) and Augsburg (8, 3-0) respectively.

Both Tuchel and Terzic, with the Champions in mind, they reserved several of their players, such as Jamal Musiala for Bayern and Marcel Sabitzer (came in in the second half) for Dortmund.