Harry Kane defends himself against Dietmar Hamann’s criticism of the goal score

Harry Kane has hit back at former Bayern Munich, Liverpool and Germany midfielder Dietmar Hamann’s comments suggesting the England captain doesn’t score enough goals in big games.

Kane has scored 64 goals and contributed 21 assists in 62 games for Bayern since joining the Bundesliga giants from Tottenham in 2023. He was given the award Top scorer cannon Award after scoring 36 goals in his debut season in the German league in 2023/24.

Kane’s 20 goals in 17 games this season were boosted by hat-tricks against Holsten Kiel and Stuttgart and four goals against Dinamo Zagreb. Although he scored in Bayern’s 4-1 loss to Barcelona, ​​Kane failed to score in games against Bayer Leverkusen, Aston Villa, Benfica and Eintracht Frankfurt.

Hamann said in October that Kane “couldn’t be persuaded to score a hat-trick against Darmstadt.”

Kane has yet to win a major trophy in his senior professional career. His arrival in Germany coincided with Bayern’s first failed title bid since 2012, when Leverkusen topped the Bundesliga.

The 31-year-old, Spurs and England’s all-time record goalscorer, became the fastest player to score 50 Bundesliga goals with a hat-trick in Bayern’s 3-0 win over Augsburg, eclipsing previous record holder Erling Haaland on Friday .

“Yeah, maybe it’s taken a little bit out of context,” Kane said at a news conference Monday. “I think if you look at my goals last season against some of the bigger teams: Dortmund away, Stuttgart – all those types of games… Yeah, maybe that’s a bit out of context, but look, I’m trying To score a goal.” In every game I try to help the team. Obviously this week is a really big week and we know it.

“As the team’s striker and the team’s goalscorer, I obviously want to help the team by scoring goals, but as always, I always feel that my achievements are more than just goals, both with and without the ball.” So if we get three wins and I don’t score a goal, I’ll be happy and the coach will be happy, so that’s the most important thing.”

Kane was responding to a question about a Sky Deutschland column written after Bayern’s Champions League loss to Villa on October 2, in which Hamann said he remained unconvinced of Kane’s abilities on the biggest stages .

“Harry Kane had a personally sobering evening in Birmingham – on top of the defeat,” wrote Hamann.

“I said after the European Championship in the summer that he still has to prove that he is worth the 100 million – even if he scored over 30 goals last year.”

“He wasn’t used to score a hat-trick against Darmstadt. He was used to score against Leverkusen and Aston Villa and to score in the quarter-finals of the Champions League.”

“He hasn’t done that yet. I remain skeptical about the star striker.”

Bayern will host Paris Saint-Germain at the Allianz Arena on Tuesday in their fifth Champions League game.