Arsenal may have thought they had seen the back of nemesis Harry Kane when he left Tottenham for Bayern Munich in the summer, but he returns to north London looking to dump Mikel Arteta’s side out of the Champions League.
The Gunners host Bayern in Tuesday’s quarter-final first leg.
The 30-year-old has scored more Premier League goals against Arsenal than anybody else – with 14 strikes. Five of those came at the Emirates, which is the joint most for a non-Arsenal player.
Kane has enjoyed a record-breaking start in Germany with 38 goals in his first 37 games.
He is running away with the European Golden Shoe, the competition for the top scorer in any of Europe’s top divisions and one he has never won before, with 32 goals to date.
The England captain is only the fourth player to reach that total in a Bundesliga campaign, after Bayern legends Gerd Muller and Robert Lewandowski, who did it three times each, and Cologne’s Dieter Muller.
The record for goals in a Bundesliga season was Lewandowski’s 41 for Bayern in 2020-21, a record Kane would need 10 goals in his final six games to break.
“He will win the European Golden Shoe this year and all this will add to the perception that, yes, he is a fantastic striker,” said European football journalist Guillem Balague on BBC Radio 5 Live’s Euro Leagues Show.
“He breaks the record of Lewandowski and we start talking about legendary status.
Arsenal may have thought they had seen the back of nemesis Harry Kane when he left Tottenham for Bayern Munich in the summer, but he returns to north London looking to dump Mikel Arteta’s side out of the Champions League.
The Gunners host Bayern in Tuesday’s quarter-final first leg.
The 30-year-old has scored more Premier League goals against Arsenal than anybody else – with 14 strikes. Five of those came at the Emirates, which is the joint most for a non-Arsenal player.
Kane has enjoyed a record-breaking start in Germany with 38 goals in his first 37 games.
He is running away with the European Golden Shoe, the competition for the top scorer in any of Europe’s top divisions and one he has never won before, with 32 goals to date.
The England captain is only the fourth player to reach that total in a Bundesliga campaign, after Bayern legends Gerd Muller and Robert Lewandowski, who did it three times each, and Cologne’s Dieter Muller.
The record for goals in a Bundesliga season was Lewandowski’s 41 for Bayern in 2020-21, a record Kane would need 10 goals in his final six games to break.
“He will win the European Golden Shoe this year and all this will add to the perception that, yes, he is a fantastic striker,” said European football journalist Guillem Balague on BBC Radio 5 Live’s Euro Leagues Show.
“He breaks the record of Lewandowski and we start talking about legendary status.
