{"id":17693,"date":"2025-08-28T12:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T12:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=17693"},"modified":"2025-08-28T12:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T12:04:07","slug":"kane-rescues-bayern-in-german-cup-first-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=17693","title":{"rendered":"Kane rescues Bayern in German Cup first round"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Harry Kane scored a last-gasp winner to spare Bayern Munich&#8217;s blushes in a dramatic 3-2 victory at third-tier Wehen Wiesbaden in the German Cup first round on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Bayern were two goals up and cruising not long after half-time thanks to a Kane penalty, his 31st successful spot-kick in a row for club and country, and Michael Olise&#8217;s goal.<\/p>\n<p>But Wiesbaden captain Fatih Kaya scored twice in five minutes to drag his side back into the match.<\/p>\n<p>Kane was felled in the box but had his 76th-minute spot-kick saved, his first missed penalty since blasting over the bar for England against France in the 2022 World Cup quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p>He redeemed himself however, heading in a Josip Stanisic cross in the fourth and final minute of stoppage time to help Bayern avoid embarrassment.<\/p>\n<p>Bayern have not progressed past the German Cup quarter-finals since winning a record-extending 20th title in the 2019-20 competition.<\/p>\n<p>Bayern took the lead on 16 minutes, Kane converting from the spot after Sacha Boey was fouled.<\/p>\n<p>The Bundesliga champions did not add a second until the 51st minute, when the impressive Olise took advantage of a defensive error to sweep the ball into the bottom corner.<\/p>\n<p>Bayern looked on course for a routine win until Wiesbaden summer signing Niklas May curled in an excellent cross for Kaya to cut the deficit in the 64th minute with a sliding volley.<\/p>\n<p>The goal inspired the hosts, who grabbed an equaliser when a long ball forward was flicked on by Moritz Flotho, sending Kaya clean through on goal to score again.<\/p>\n<p>Kane stepped up for another penalty but was denied by a brilliant save by home goalkeeper Florian Stritzel, who did equally well to keep out the England captain&#8217;s follow-up effort before the ball was scrambled clear.<\/p>\n<p>Kane had the last laugh, though, leaping high to nod in and break Wiesbaden&#8217;s hearts.<\/p>\n<p>The draw for the second round will take place on Sunday.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harry Kane scored a last-gasp winner to spare Bayern Munich&#8217;s blushes in a dramatic 3-2 victory at third-tier Wehen Wiesbaden in the German Cup first round on Wednesday. Bayern were two goals up and cruising not long after half-time thanks to a Kane penalty, his 31st successful spot-kick in a row for club and country, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}