Bochum 3-2 Bayern Munich: Harry Kane purpose not sufficient as Bayern lose third sport in a row

England captain Harry Kane’s late purpose at Bochum was not sufficient as Bayern Munich suffered their third defeat in 9 days.

Bochum scored twice, with targets from Takuma Asano and Keven Schlotterbeck.

Kevin Stoger’s penalty made it 3-1 after Dayot Upamecano had been despatched off and, regardless of Kane’s twenty fifth league purpose of the season, it was not sufficient.

Thomas Tuchel’s Bayern are actually eight factors behind Bundesliga leaders Bayer Leverkusen.

Tuchel stated profitable the Bundesliga title “doesn’t look very sensible”, however added: “Last season we believed till the tip and we had been rewarded. So we’ll hold working at it.”

Bayern have been German champions in every of the previous 11 seasons however now face the opportunity of ending the marketing campaign with out a trophy.

They misplaced within the German Super Cup in August after which went out of the German Cup within the second spherical to third-tier Saarbrucken in November.

Tuchel’s aspect misplaced 3-0 at Leverkusen on 10 February and had been then overwhelmed 1-0 by Lazio within the first leg of their Champions League last-16 tie in midweek.

Referring to the stress on him following his staff’s third loss, Tuchel added: “That occurs after each defeat.

“The ‘how’ we performed is vital. The ‘how’ was good and that is why this 90 minutes are very completely different from the second half at Lazio or the sport at Leverkusen.”

This defeat was the primary time Bayern have misplaced three matches in a row since May 2015, when managed by Pep Guardiola.

More protests at Bundesliga video games

Midway by the primary half, and once more early within the second, play was stopped for just below 10 minutes on every event following protests by the followers, wherein tennis balls had been thrown on to the pitch.

Protests have gotten a daily incidence at Bundesliga matches with supporters sad with an funding proposal by the German Football Association.

In December, a majority vote by German golf equipment accepted a proposal to promote some Bundesliga TV rights in trade for funding capital and since then there was quite a lot of protests.

On Saturday, the Bundesliga 2 match between Hansa Rostock and Hamburg was interrupted by distant management vehicles carrying smoke bombs.

Last week, tennis balls and chocolate gold cash had been thrown on to the pitch by followers within the Borussia Dortmund part inflicting a 10-minute delay of their sport towards Freiburg.

On Friday, 9 February, there was a protest throughout a Hannover sport when Hamburg followers chained six padlocks to the purpose and netting at half-time which needed to be lower off earlier than play may resume.

Kane continues to succeed in goalscoring landmarks

Bayern had scored first by Musiala’s highly effective strike, however conceded twice in a five-minute spell after the primary of the 2 stoppages.

Upamecano picked up his second yellow card and was dismissed after elbowing Schlotterbeck – his second sending-off in 5 days after being red-carded towards Lazio – with Bochum changing the penalty to go 3-1 forward.

Bundesliga high scorer Kane received a purpose again late on however his aspect couldn’t power an equaliser.

He did handle to set a brand new report as he turned the quickest to succeed in 25 Bundesliga targets in a single season, doing so in 22 video games to beat the earlier finest mark of 25 by former Borussia Dortmund striker Erling Haaland.

Kane, who moved from Tottenham for £86.4m final summer time, has not gained a serious trophy in his profession, so will probably be hoping Bayern can catch Leverkusen and switch round their European deficit.