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From goalkeeper’s dream to their nightmare

From goalkeeper’s dream to their nightmare

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5 min readJun 19, 2026 07:33 AM IST The commentators were still figuring out the substitutes and their likely positions when one of them, in fact both of them, combined to produce a thundering strike. The score deadlocked, Switzerland’s frustrations mounting, Ruben Vargas darted down the left and floated a ball into the box. Not a piercing delivery. Bosnia half-cleared it. Then the theatrics kicked in. A dreadlocked 20-year-old blur pirouetted almost ninety degrees to volley the ball into the net. The speed gun read 79 miles an hour. Roll the tape, play it again. But every eye was on the goalscorer: his name, his face, his number, the pronunciation. He was buried under a pile of red shirts. Then he turned and pointed to the back of his shirt. It read: Johan Manzambi. The name echoed around the stands, played on every lip. And it echoed again when he pre-assisted his team’s second and nailed the third, transforming a bland first-half performance into a memorable one for his team and its joyous fans. His …

Harry Kane Scores As Bayern Munich Go Six Points Clear In Bundesliga Table

Harry Kane Scores As Bayern Munich Go Six Points Clear In Bundesliga Table

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Harry Kane scored as Bayern Munich won 2-1 at Freiburg on Saturday to move six points clear of Bayer Leverkusen, who threw away a two-goal lead to draw 2-2 at RB Leipzig. Kane and English compatriot Eric Dier created the opener in the 15th minute. Dier found Kane who drilled a low shot through the fingers of Freiburg goalkeeper Noah Atubolu. The goal was Kane’s first from open play since mid-November and his 17th in 17 league games this season. Bayern doubled their lead after 54 minutes when Kim Min-jae outmuscled Atubolu and headed in a Joshua Kimmich corner. Freiburg made Bayern sweat when Matthias Ginter headed in a corner with 22 minutes remaining, but the German giants held firm to bounce back from Wednesday’s surprise 3-0 Champions League loss at Feyenoord. “We’ve played better games than that,” Kimmich told Sky Germany. “But that is exactly what you need sometimes. We deserved to win.” Bayern’s win means defending champions Leverkusen are now six points behind the league leaders, after they dropped points in …

Misfiring Harry Kane Needs To Shake Off Slump As Bayern Munich Visit Freiburg

Misfiring Harry Kane Needs To Shake Off Slump As Bayern Munich Visit Freiburg

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Bayern Munich striker Harry Kane will hope to overcome a slump in front of goal when his side travel to face Freiburg on Saturday. With 16 goals in 16 games this season, Kane still tops the Bundesliga goalscoring charts, but the numbers bely a trend which may worry the league leaders. Kane has not scored from open play since November, a run of seven games in all competitions, although the England captain’s remarkable reliability from the spot has glossed over the dip in form. He has scored two penalties in that time, extending his tally to 27 consecutive spot-kicks converted for club and country dating back to his 2022 World Cup quarter-final miss against France. In Wednesday’s 3-0 Champions League loss at Feyenoord, Kane and Bayern were dominant with the ball but were unable to convert a number of chances. The 31-year-old missed four games in December with a hamstring strain and is clearly not yet back to 100 percent. “Of course we need his goals,” Bayern’s sporting director Max Eberl said of …

Bayer Leverkusen Extend Unbeaten Run To 38 As Bundesliga Title Nears

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Florian Wirtz scored after 84 seconds as Bayer Leverkusen made it 38 games unbeaten in all competitions with a 3-2 victory in Freiburg on Sunday. Leverkusen’s seventh league win on the bounce kept them 10 points clear of serial champions Bayern Munich with eight games to play in their quest for the club’s first ever Bundesliga crown. “It was a good performance, a deserved victory. It’s not easy to win in Freiburg but we keep going,” Leverkusen coach Xabi Alonso told DAZN before praising the performance of his playmaker Wirtz. “It’s not just the goal he scored, he has a super game. He has real quality and I am very happy for his development.” Wirtz, one of Leverkusen’s key performers this season, got things moving in style. The Germany forward cut in from the left and unleashed a perfect shot with his right foot, chalking up his seventh league goal of the campaign. The early goal stunned Freiburg, who came into the game fresh from a 5-0 thrashing at the hands of West Ham in …

‘Panicky’ Bayern Munich Held In Freiburg To Boost Bayer Leverkusen Title Hopes

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Bayern Munich were held to a 2-2 draw at Freiburg on Friday, an 87th-minute equaliser from Lucas Hoeler giving leaders Bayer Leverkusen a chance to go 10 points clear. Mathys Tel’s 35th-minute stunner had cancelled out an impressive opener from Freiburg captain Christian Guenter, before Jamal Musiala‘s spectacular solo effort looked to have snared the three points for Bayern. Hoeler however had other ideas, chipping a volley through a crowded Bayern penalty area and past a helpless Manuel Neuer. Bayern manager Thomas Tuchel criticised his players’ “body language and lack of bite” in the first half an hour, telling DAZN “we played completely without structure and had no discipline and weren’t in our positions.” Calling his side “panicky”, Tuchel said: “We did things that we’ve never trained, that we’ve never spoken about. “We played like it was the 85th minute and we were a goal down.” Musiala told DAZN he felt “frustrated”. “Since I’ve been at Bayern it’s been in my head that we must win and we hate to lose.  We want to win …