The opening goal too came from Kane, when Joshua Kimmich delivered a corner right onto his head. The England captain got the better of Serhou Guirassy, the two men who have scored the second and third most goals in Europe’s major leagues in 2025 behind Kylian Mbappè. It was Kane’s 400th competitive goal at club level, his 22nd of this season and 12th in the league – in Bundesliga history only Guirassy in 2023/24 has registered more goals after seven matchdays, then for VfB Stuttgart.
Bayern with all the punches but no knockout
Bayern continued to be alert, focused and strong in tackles. “If you want to survive in Munich, you have to play with courage, with forward drive, with guts, and we completely lacked that in the first half,” said BVB captain Niko Schlotterbeck afterwards. Dortmund struggled to get a foothold in the game – and when they did manage to find it briefly, it slipped away from the visitors like a piece of wet soap. FCB were unstoppable in this dominant half. Luis Diaz, Michael Olise, Joshua Kimmich, Kane again and again, who pulled the strings behind Nicolas Jackson in the absence of Serge Gnabry (adductor problems) – Bayern painted a picture of joy and intensity. But apart from Olise hitting the outside post once, the record champions didn’t create any more chances before the break – their profligacy in front of goal was their only shortcoming. And Dortmund’s greatest stroke of luck up to that point. The “fist” that BVB boss Kovač had demanded in the run-up to this top-of-the-clash felt more like a sponge to Bayern. “When you look at how consistent Bayern are, how dominant they are in winning games and how many goals they score, it’s not good,” conceded Dortmund’s Pascal Groß.
