Harry Kane opened the scoring before lifting his first silverware in a career while Bayern Munich beat Borussia Moenchengladbach 2-0, the veteran Thomas Mueller playing his last home game for the club. Bayern officially won the title on Sunday when the title champions Bayer Leverkusen were held in a 2-2 draw in Freiburg, but were presented with the Bundesliga Shield in front of their full-time fans. Dripping Wet After being showered by beer by teammates, Kane said that the title victory was “an incredible feeling”, and hoped that it would be “the first of many”.
“It was a lot of hard work, a lot of sacrifices between the two, for moments like this – to take advantage of it with the team, take advantage of it with the fans. I love every minute,” said the captain of England.
Kane opened the 31 -minute score, heading for a shot from Michael Olise Curling for his 25th league campaign goal.
Bayern missing from their usual energy, Gladbach was likely to equalize but were disappointed by a bad finish. Olise made a close point to score its own goal in the last minute, sealing the opportunity.
During his 750th match in all competitions for the club, Mueller – who will leave Bayern after 25 years in summer – almost scored but saved the 57th minute.
The 35 -year -old man was cut with seven minutes to play, tightening his teammates while the reserves and the staff rushed to form an honor guard. Mueller won a record of 13 Bundesliga titles and two Champions Leagues in Bayern.
Addressing Sky Germany, Mueller said: “I can’t really work in my mind right now”, but said that he had been touched by “75,000 hearts that were beating a little for me”.
Kane said he was “proud” to play with Mueller, calling the veteran “a legend of football and a legend in this club”.
The longtime England of Kane and his Tottenham teammate, Eric Dier, who will join Monaco in summer, also received a shipment before the match.
Leipzig “ disappointed ”, Bochum and Kiel relegated
The best four hopes of RB Leipzig were destroyed with a draw in Werder Bremen while Holstein Kiel and Bochum were relegated from the Bundesliga after the two fell at home.
Leipzig had only missed the Champions League once in eight seasons since their first promotion in 2017, but fought against a Bremen team that pushes for a return to Europe after an absence of 15 years.
The Xavi Simons of Leipzig got closer to the scoring, hitting the post with 68 minutes missing and forcing a goalkeeper Michael Zetter two minutes later.
“It’s extremely disappointing,” said Christoph Baumgartner de Leipzig.
“It’s day 33 and we didn’t do it.
The result means that Jurgen Klopp, the new football chief among the Red Bull owners, will supervise his first dead man without the promise of the Champions League.
Leipzig has to beat Stuttgart in his last match to have a hope of reaching the Europa League, while European Hopes in Bremen are now purely mathematical given their bad difference in goals.
Heidenheim’s 3-0 victory at Union Berlin on Saturday, thanks to an Adrian Beck splint and a goal from Jan Schoeppner, obtained at least the relegation barrage for the 16th place team.
Kiel, promoted to the elite for the first time this season, was to win to keep their hopes alive and marked first, but conceded twice to descend 2-1 against Freiburg.
The Rosenboom Lasse’s counterattack opener was canceled by an equalizer of Johan Manzambi just before half-time.
Lucas Hoeler replaced Manzambi at halftime and scored at the start of the second period, heading towards short distance to give the advance to Freiburg.
The victory puts Freiburg in pole position to play the Champions League for the first time next season.
Freiburg is four points from Borussia Dortmund, who has two games to play.
The passage of four years of Bochum in the Bundesliga ended after a defeat of 4-1 against Mypied, which marked by the German duo Nadiem Amiri and Jonathan Burkardt, with Phillipp Mwene and Paul Nebel.
Bochum, who had only two points in December but kept his hopes alive with a series of good results, including victories on Bayern Munich and Dortmund, only collected two points of their last eight games.
Bayer Leverkusen welcomes Dortmund on Sunday in the last home match of coach Xabi Alonso with the club.
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