‘Bit of a crazy game’

Bayern Munich’s Harry Kane celebrates his hat-trick against Dinamo Zagreb on Tuesday. Pics/Getty Images

Harry Kane scored four goals, including three penalties, as Bayern Munich beat Dinamo Zagreb 9-2 at home on Tuesday - becoming the first team to score nine goals in a Champions League match.

Surpasses Rooney's mark

Kane opened the scoring from the spot after 19 minutes and a second-half hat trick took him to 33 Champions League goals, the most of any Englishman as he overtook Wayne Rooney's mark of 30.

The comfortable scoreline masked a difficult period after the break when Bayern lost goalkeeper Manuel Neuer to injury and Zagreb rallied, scoring two goals in two minutes to cut the gap to 3-2 after five second-half minutes.

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Former Crystal Palace forward Michael Olise scored a brace on his Champions League debut while Raphael Guerreiro, Leroy Sane and Leon Goretzka also grabbed goals for Bayern. "An amazing game - a bit of a crazy game," Kane told DAZN.

"It's the first time I've scored three [penalties] in a game. That doesn't happen at all really. I practice my penalties, I have a good routine but to be honest I didn't really know what to do for the third one, but thankfully I was able to put it away." Kane said Bayern "got away with" their second-half lapse but "against the top opposition we can get punished for that, so we need to sort that out."

Record-breaking win

Bayern boss Vincent Kompany toasted a record-breaking win on his debut as a Champions League coach. "I'm just happy for the lads. They scored the goals, I didn't score any," a smiling Kompany told DAZN.

The former Manchester City captain praised his side's mentality, saying: "We conceded two goals but we stayed calm. It's not ideal - I know already what happened and how we need to work on it. We need to have more control but that will come."

The six-time Champions League winners had won every one of their past 20 opening matches in the competition dating back to 2002-03. The score is one goal better than Bayern's record 8-2 win over Barcelona in the quarter-finals of the competition in 2020.

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