Bayern Munich 3-2 Eintracht Frankfurt: Kane double enough to secure nervy win

Harry Kane netted a brace as Bayern Munich held on for a 3-2 win over Eintracht Frankfurt that moved them nine points clear at the Bundesliga summit.

Bayern had been in control after Kane’s goal midway through the second half, but Eintracht fought back, netting twice in the last 13 minutes to set up a nervy ending.

Eintracht failed to clear Alphonso Davies’ looping cross, and Alexander Pavlovic met it with a thumping volley, though Kaua Santos should have done better as it trickled under him into the bottom-right corner 16 minutes in.

Kane, who had already seen a tight-angled shot parried, doubled Bayern’s lead 20 minutes in, nodding Josip Stanisic’s flick-on past Kaua in a crowded box.

Substitute Jonathan Burkardt saw a dink clip the foot of Bayern’s left post shortly after the hour, before Kane struck again in the 68th minute. He was afforded too much space outside the area and bent his strike into the bottom-left corner.

But nine minutes later, he clipped Oscar Hojlund while trying to make a clearance inside his own box, with a penalty awarded following a VAR review, and Burkardt coolly converted.

Arnaud Kalimuendo got Eintracht’s second with four minutes remaining, profiting from a loose Joshua Kimmich pass across the box as he deflected Min-Jae Kim’s rushed clearance into the empty Bayern net, though they could not find a late equaliser.