{"id":234378,"date":"2025-10-23T06:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T06:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/234378\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T06:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T06:35:08","slug":"harry-kane-bayern-munich-striker-cant-stop-scoring-is-he-ready-to-win-the-ballon-dor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/234378\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Kane: Bayern Munich striker can&#8217;t stop scoring &#8211; is he ready to win the Ballon d&#8217;Or?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But there is more to Kane&#8217;s Ballon d&#8217;Or case than just goals &#8211; the work he does on and off the ball when dropping off the forward line is unmatched by other elite goalscorers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Kane has reinvented the centre-forward game, as Manuel Neuer did with goalkeepers about a decade and a half ago,&#8221; 1990 Ballon d&#8217;Or winner Lothar Matthaus wrote in his column for <a href=\"https:\/\/sport.sky.de\/fussball\/artikel\/lothar-matthaeus-kolumne-ueber-harry-kane-bayern-und-nico-schlotterbeck\/13453925\/34369\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sky Germany., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t see a better striker in the world right now. Not just because of his goals, but because of his versatility and the positions he plays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Kane also demonstrates qualities as a passer, dribbler, and tackler. He is simultaneously a goalscorer, playmaker, box-to-box player, and tackler.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The way Kane brings others into games while also maintaining his incredible scoring record does not go unnoticed by his team-mates either.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Harry makes you better &#8211; he is not here just to finish, he will put you in front of the goal,&#8221; his former Bayern team-mate Kingsley Coman said on the Rio Ferdinand Presents podcast earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I feel like he enjoys finding a really nice pass as much as scoring. What is amazing is that he can do both. He is one of the strikers who is easiest to play with.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;People say if your striker is selfish then there is a problem. But Harry is not selfish and he bangs in 40 goals or more a season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After Jamal Musiala&#8217;s leg and ankle break in the summer cost Bayern their main creative force, manager Vincent Kompany tweaked Kane&#8217;s role to give him near-total attacking freedom on the pitch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He is playing like three or four different players on the pitch at the same time, and that makes him so invaluable,&#8221; said Raphael Honigstein on the BBC Football Daily Euro Leagues podcast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mina Rzouki added: &#8220;His intellect is on another level, his sacrifice for the team is on another level.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But there is more to Kane&#8217;s Ballon d&#8217;Or case than just goals &#8211; the work he does on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-234378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}