Kane nets twice in German Cup as Bayern set European wins record / Photo: Sascha Schuermann - AFP
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Kane nets twice in German Cup as Bayern set European wins record
Harry Kane grabbed a double as Bayern Munich set a European record of 14 successive victories to start a season with their 4-1 win at Cologne in the German Cup second round on Wednesday.
Kane's first, an incredible curling strike on the turn, and a second-half header brought his tally to 22 goals in 14 games this season.
Wingers Luis Diaz and Michael Olise also got on the scoresheet for the 20-time German Cup winners.
Cologne's Ragnar Ache scored the opener, which put Bayern behind for the first time in a match this season.
Bayern's victory bettered the record of 13 wins to start a season in all competitions set by Fabio Capello's AC Milan in 1992-93 -- the previous best mark in Europe's top-five leagues.
The in-form England captain Kane has scored two hat-tricks and six braces in Bayern's record-breaking run, only failing to score in two of the 14 matches.
Bayern coach Vincent Kompany was careful to praise Kane's all-round contribution, as the striker continued to drop deep and create.
"It's funny sometimes -- at the end of the game I asked someone if Harry scored today, and he said 'yes, two goals'," Kompany told Germany's ARD.
"Sometimes you don't even notice it, because of all the other stuff he does for the team."
Earlier, Bayer Leverkusen scored two goals after the 120-minute mark to win 4-2 at a 10-man Paderborn.
A frustrating night for the 2024 German domestic double winners looked destined to go to spot-kicks until 19-year-old Ibrahim Maza netted to spare Leverkusen's blushes against their second-division opponents, who had not lost since August.
Aleix Garcia then added gloss to the result with Paderborn pushing for an equaliser.
In regulation time, Alejandro Grimaldo's 60th-minute free-kick for Leverkusen -- his fourth dead-ball goal this season -- was cancelled out when Paderborn's Stefano Marino scored in the 90th minute.
Then in extra-time, Paderborn, who were reduced to 10 men before the hour for a last-man foul which led to Grimaldo's free-kick, stunningly took the lead through Sven Michel on 96 minutes.
But former Liverpool centre-back Jarell Quansah made it 2-2 shortly before the extra-time interval.
Winners in 2023-24, Leverkusen will be joined by current cup holders Stuttgart, who won 2-0 at Mainz thanks to goals from Luca Jaquez and captain Atakan Karazor.
Centre-back Jaquez rose high to head in a corner with six minutes gone. With 73 minutes played, Karazor blasted in on the counter after Germany midfielder Angelo Stiller's clever dummy fooled the home defence.
Former Liverpool goalkeeper Loris Karius endured an unhappy night as his Schalke side were thumped 4-0 by fellow second-division side Darmstadt.
Wednesday's other winners Freiburg, Magdeburg, and Kaiserslautern join Borussia Dortmund, Hertha Berlin, RB Leipzig, Hamburg, St Pauli, Borussia Moenchengladbach, Holstein Kiel and Bochum in the last 16.
L.Davis--AMWN
