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Kane hits brace as Bayern thump Hamburg again

Kane hits brace as Bayern thump Hamburg again
Bayern Munich players applaud fans after their Bundesliga match against Hamburger SV — Allianz Arena, Munich, Sept. 13, 2025. (Reuters)
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Updated 13 September 2025

Kane hits brace as Bayern thump Hamburg again

Kane hits brace as Bayern thump Hamburg again
  • Kane brought his Bayern tally to 93 goals in 101 games while Serge Gnabry, Luis Diaz and Aleksandar Pavlovic also scored
  • Gnabry hammered the ball into the roof of the net just three minutes in

BERLIN: Harry Kane scored in each half as Bayern Munich piled the pain on old foe Hamburg in a 5-0 home win on Saturday.
Kane brought his Bayern tally to 93 goals in 101 games while Serge Gnabry, Luis Diaz and Aleksandar Pavlovic also scored.
Alongside Borussia Dortmund as the only Bundesliga sides to win the European Cup, Bayern and Hamburg have taken different paths since dominating German football in the 1980s.
Bayern have won 12 of the past 13 league titles while Hamburg were promoted last season after seven seasons in the second division.
Gnabry hammered the ball into the roof of the net just three minutes in. Bayern junior Pavlovic finished off a team move six minutes later.
Kane converted a penalty awarded for handball with 26 minutes played. Diaz made it four three minutes later, his fourth goal since joining Bayern in the summer.
Nicolas Jackson came on at half-time, making his debut after moving to Bayern on loan from Chelsea in the summer.
Bayern open their Champions League campaign at home against Chelsea on Wednesday.
The England captain then started and finished off his own move to score Bayern’s fifth and final goal in the 62nd minute.
Since Hamburg’s last win in Munich in 2007, Bayern have won 16 and drawn three of their home matches in the series, scoring 76 goals to Hamburg’s seven, a run which includes two 8-0 wins and a 9-2 victory.
Bayern moved atop the table as the only side with three wins from three.

- Guirassy scores, Dortmund wins -
Serhou Guirassy scored for the eighth straight league match as Dortmund won 2-0 at 10-man Heidenheim.
Heidenheim’s Budu Zivzivadze received a red card 21 minutes for a studs-up challenge just below the knee on Dortmund’s Felix Nmecha.
An acrobatic save from Heidenheim goalie Diant Ramaj, on loan from Dortmund, denied Guirassy from the ensuing free-kick.
The Guinean did not take long to get on the scoresheet, heading in a pinpoint Julian Ryerson cross with 33 minutes played.
In the sixth minute of first-half stoppage time, Karim Adeyemi danced through the Heidenheim defense before squaring to Maximilian Beier who tapped Dortmund two in front.
“Our goal is to become champions, so we have to get points. We did that,†Beier told Sky Germany.
“When you’re a man up the entire game, that makes it easier.â€
Asked about Guirassy’s performance, Dortmund sporting director Sebastian Kehl said simply: “Serhou scores again.â€
Guirassy, 29, has only failed to score in two of his past 15 matches for Dortmund in all competitions, racking up 18 goals in the process.
Champions League finalists in 2024, Dortmund kick off their European season away at Juventus on Tuesday.
Elsewhere, Freiburg scored three goals in the final 10 minutes to beat Stuttgart 3-1 at home.
Left to carry the mantle up front after Nick Woltemade’s big-money move to Newcastle, Ermedin Demirovic put Stuttgart in front with a classy backheel after 20 minutes, holding up two Freiburg defenders and sliding a slick finish into the corner.
Stuttgart looked set to hold on for victory until Freiburg’s Igor Matanovic kick-started a late flurry, scoring with nine minutes remaining.
Derry Scherhant put the hosts in front five minutes later and Matanovic grabbed another in stoppage time for Freiburg’s first points of the season.
Union Berlin gave away two penalties and finished a man down in a 4-2 home loss to Hoffenheim.
Hoffenheim’s Fisnik Asllani scored a brace, while Andrej Kramaric and Tim Lemperle converted from the spot.
Johan Bakayoko scored his first goal since arriving at RB Leipzig in the summer in a 1-0 win at Mainz.
Promoted Cologne scored in the 14th minute of second-half stoppage time to snatch a point in a 3-3 draw at Wolfsburg, with Jakub Kaminski providing the crucial goal for the visitors against his parent club.


NBA champion Thunder rally to down Grizzlies, Kevin Durant fuels Rockets win over Bucks

NBA champion Thunder rally to down Grizzlies, Kevin Durant fuels Rockets win over Bucks
Updated 10 November 2025

NBA champion Thunder rally to down Grizzlies, Kevin Durant fuels Rockets win over Bucks

NBA champion Thunder rally to down Grizzlies, Kevin Durant fuels Rockets win over Bucks
  • Detroit’s Cade Cunningham scored 26 points and handed out 11 assists to propel the Pistons to a sixth straight victory, 111-107 over the 76ers in Philadelphia
  • In New York, the Knicks pushed their perfect home record to 6-0 with a 134-98 blowout of the one-win Brooklyn Nets

LOS ANGELES: The NBA champion Oklahoma City Thunder erased a 19-point first-half deficit to beat the Memphis Grizzlies 114-100 on Sunday and improve their league-best record to 10-1.

Reigning NBA Most Valuable Player Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 13 of his 35 points in the third quarter as the Thunder surged to the lead then held on to continue their mastery of the Grizzlies, who they swept in the first round of the playoffs last season.

Gilgeous-Alexander added seven rebounds, six assists and two steals and Chet Holmgren and Ajay Mitchell added 21 points each for OKC.

“We know in this league so many variables are thrown at you on a nightly basis,†Gilgeous-Alexander said. “You’ve just got to figure out what the task is that night and get it done.

“We’ve done that on multiple occasions in the past couple of years. We built that muscle pretty well and it showed.â€

Jaren Jackson Jr. led the Grizzlies with 17 points and seven rebounds. Ja Morant added 11 points, three rebounds and eight assists.

The Grizzlies were up 33-25 after the first quarter. They led by as many as 19 on the way to a 62-51 halftime advantage.

But the Thunder stormed back after the break, out-scoring the Grizzlies 34-18 in the third quarter to seize an 85-80 lead heading into the final frame.

The Grizzlies tied it twice in the fourth, but Mitchell drove for a layup that put Oklahoma City up for good with 8:05 remaining and Gilgeous-Alexander delivered a pair of three-pointers and a three-point play in a nine-point outburst as the Thunder pulled away.

“My shot wasn’t falling throughout the whole night, that didn’t deter me,†Gilgeous-Alexander said. “I just stuck with it. Made a few just in time for the W.â€

The Houston Rockets, led by 31 points from two-time champion Kevin Durant, rallied late in Milwaukee to beat the Bucks 122-115.

Alperen Sengun added 23 points and 11 rebounds and Jabari Smith Jr. and Reed Sheppard scored 16 apiece for the Rockets, who bounced back from a Friday loss to San Antonio that ended their five-game winning streak.

 

’Great finish’

 

The Bucks had led since the first quarter when Smith, fed by Durant, drilled a three-pointer that put the Rockets up 113-111 with 2:28 remaining.

Bucks guard Ryan Rollins responded with a driving layup to tie it, but Durant put the Rockets back in front for good with a pull-up basket, Sengun adding a turnaround hook shot and a driving basket that yielded a three-point play as Houston pulled away.

Durant connected on an efficient 11-of-15 shots and handed out seven assists and the Rockets out-scored the Bucks 22-7 over the final four and a half minutes.

“We weathered the storm,†Durant said. “It was a great, great finish for us.â€

Giannis Antetokounmpo, coming off a 41-point performance in the Bucks’ win over the Bulls on Friday, scored 37 points.

But he missed a layup and four of six free throws in the final minute and a half.

In New York, the Knicks pushed their perfect home record to 6-0 with a 134-98 blowout of the one-win Brooklyn Nets.

Detroit’s Cade Cunningham scored 26 points and handed out 11 assists to propel the Pistons to a sixth straight victory, 111-107 over the 76ers in Philadelphia.

Cunningham posted his sixth double-double of the season, shaking off a slow start to score 24 points in the second half as the Pistons rallied from a 13-point deficit.

Tyrese Maxey scored 33 points to lead Philadelphia, who were without Joel Embiid on the second night of a back-to-back.

In San Francisco, Jimmy Butler scored 21 points, grabbed nine rebounds and handed out seven assists for the Golden State Warriors, who beat the injury-hit Indiana Pacers 114-83 despite the absence of ailing star Stephen Curry — who missed a third straight game.