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Harry Kane steers Bayern into Champions League quarterfinals
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Harry Kane celebrates after scoring for Bayern Munich.[X, Bayern Munich]
Harry Kane scored twice to steer Bayern Munich into the quarterfinals of the Champions League with a 3-0 win over Lazio on Tuesday.
Kane’s 32nd and 33rd goals this season for Bayern ensured the Bavarian powerhouse recovered from losing the first leg of the last 16 tie 1-0 in Rome to win 3-1 on aggregate over two legs.
The win will ease the pressure on Bayern coach Thomas Tuchel, whose premature departure at the end of the season was announced by Bayern after the team’s three-game losing run — including the defeat in Rome.
Bayern’s new sporting director Max Eberl said before Tuesday’s game that Tuchel would remain in charge afterward even if the team lost, but there had been a feeling defeat would bring forward the coach’s exit.
“If we had been eliminated today, it would have been more than unfortunate,” Bayern president Herbert Hainer said.
Kane broke the deadlock in the 38th minute after Ciro Immobile had gone close for Lazio at the other end.
Sané had recovered enough to start after a knee problem kept him from playing in the 2-2 draw with Freiburg over the weekend.
Bayern forward Serge Gnabry entered in the last minute for his first appearance since December as he made his comeback
from a thigh injury.
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