Harry Kane made history by reaching 50 Bundesliga goals at the fastest pace ever with a hat-trick in Bayern Munich’s 3-0 win over Augsburg.
The England captain needed to score three goals to get to the landmark and after scoring a 63rd-minute penalty for the opener, he added two more in injury time.
His second strike also came from the spot after he was fouled by Keven Schlotterbeck, who was sent off for a second yellow card, just before Kane headed in his third just before full-time after a fantastic first touch to control the ball.
With the 50 goals coming in 43 Bundesliga games it meant he surpassed Erling Haaland’s mark of 50 in 50 for Borussia Dortmund, before the Norwegian joined Manchester City.
The win moved Bayern eight points clear of Leipzig at the top of the league ahead of the weekend’s games and also ensured the German giants remain unbeaten in the league with nine wins and two draws from their 11 games.
“We knew it would be difficult to break them down. We knew we had to be patient,” Kane told DAZN.
“At half-time that’s what we said, ‘we just have to keep doing what we’re doing’. Thankfully we got the penalty to open the game up and then did well to kill the game off.”
The 31-year-old has 14 goals in 11 league games for Bayern this season, with five of those penalties.
“I work on them a lot,” added Kane. “They’re a big part of the game. They helped us again today.
“Of course I’ve missed many at training, but that’s the time to miss them.”
It has already been a record-breaking season for Kane, who has now scored 20 goals in all competitions this term.
He scored four times in the 9-2 win over Dinamo Zagreb in the Champions League in September, which made him the top English scorer in Champions League or European Cup history with 33 goals in 45 games, passing Wayne Rooney’s old mark of 30.
Kane also became the first English player to score four goals in a Champions League game.
