{"id":423372,"date":"2026-04-29T12:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T12:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/423372\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T12:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T12:08:08","slug":"bayern-munich-can-take-pride-in-battling-defeat-kane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/423372\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayern Munich can take &#8216;pride&#8217; in battling defeat \u2013 Kane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harry Kane described the feeling of pride in Bayern Munich ranks after keeping their Champions League hopes alive in a nine-goal semi-final thriller against holders Paris Saint-Germain.<\/p>\n<p>Bayern must overcome a one-goal deficit in Bavaria next Wednesday after losing an incredible first leg at the Parc des Princes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/soccer\/2026\/0428\/1570740-psg-swing-nine-goal-classic-against-bayern-in-paris\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">5-4<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The German champions were staring down the barrel at 5-2 down after 58 minutes until goals from Dayot Upamecano and Luis Diaz gave them real hope of completing an extraordinary comeback.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think you saw two high-level teams out there,&#8221; Kane told Amazon Prime. &#8220;Especially in the attacking play, in the transition, the speed, the intensity, in the one-v-one battles. Two of the top teams going toe to toe.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had moments where we could have killed the game earlier on. We take a lot of pride in the fact that we got back to 5-4 because away from home, and being 5-2 down, could be a really tough place to be.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But we fought and we clawed and we&#8217;re back in the tie.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kane fired Bayern ahead with a confident 17th-minute penalty, his 54th goal of an incredible season for the England captain.<\/p>\n<p>PSG then led 2-1 and 3-2 as Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, Joao Neves and Ousmane Dembele, with the game\u2019s second penalty, struck, while Michael Olise was on target for Bayern with a 20-yard thunderbolt.<\/p>\n<p>Clinical second-half finishes from Kvaratskhelia and Dembele put PSG in command, but Bayern scored twice in three minutes midway through the half to throw the tie back into the melting pot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"youtube-container tpe\" data-embed=\"youtube\" data-id=\"ZAfLC3z2ZkY\">\n<p>Kane said: &#8220;As the game went on, we got better and better. They started to tire, so we\u2019ll go to the Allianz Arena and try and bring the same intensity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was a lot of moments out there and it\u2019s probably going to be the same next week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So us being at home with the crowd behind us at the Allianz Arena, we hope that can push us over the line.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Two-goal Dembele was named man of the match and the France striker told Canal+ Foot: &#8220;It was a match between two great teams who attack, who don\u2019t hesitate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re happy with the result, even though at 5-2 we stopped playing a bit towards the end.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re not going to change our philosophy. We\u2019re going to attack, and they\u2019re going to attack too. So I think it\u2019s going to be a great second match.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Watch Atl\u00e9tico Madrid v Arsenal in the Champions League semi-finals on Wednesday from 7.30pm on RT\u00c92 and RT\u00c9 Player. Follow our live blog on RT\u00c9.ie\/sport and RT\u00c9 News app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harry Kane described the feeling of pride in Bayern Munich ranks after keeping their Champions League hopes alive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-423372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}