BERLIN
\nHarry Kane grabbed a double as Bayern Munich set a European record of 14 successive victories to start a season with their 4-1 win at Cologne in the German Cup second round on Wednesday.
\nKane\u2019s first, an incredible curling strike on the turn, and a second-half header brought his tally to 22 goals in 14 games this season.
\nWingers Luis Diaz and Michael Olise also got on the scoresheet for the 20-time German Cup winners.
\nCologne\u2019s Ragnar Ache scored the opener, which put Bayern behind for the first time in a match this season.
\nBayern\u2019s victory bettered the record of 13 wins to start a season in all competitions set by Fabio Capello\u2019s AC Milan in 1992-93 \u2014 the previous best mark in Europe\u2019s top-five leagues.
\nThe in-form England captain Kane has scored two hat-tricks and six braces in Bayern\u2019s record-breaking run, only failing to score in two of the 14 matches.
\nBayern coach Vincent Kompany was careful to praise Kane\u2019s all-round contribution, as the striker continued to drop deep and create.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s funny sometimes \u2014 at the end of the game I asked someone if Harry scored today, and he said \u2018yes, two goals\u2019,\u201d Kompany told Germany\u2019s ARD.
\n\u201cSometimes you don\u2019t even notice it, because of all the other stuff he does for the team.\u201d
\nEarlier, Bayer Leverkusen scored two goals after the 120-minute mark to win 4-2 at a 10-man Paderborn.
\nA frustrating night for the 2024 German domestic double winners looked destined to go to spot-kicks until 19-year-old Ibrahim Maza netted to spare Leverkusen\u2019s blushes against their second-division opponents, who had not lost since August.
\nAleix Garcia then added gloss to the result with Paderborn pushing for an equaliser.
\nIn regulation time, Alejandro Grimaldo\u2019s 60th-minute free-kick for Leverkusen \u2014 his fourth dead-ball goal this season \u2014 was cancelled out when Paderborn\u2019s Stefano Marino scored in the 90th minute.
\nThen in extra-time, Paderborn, who were reduced to 10 men before the hour for a last-man foul which led to Grimaldo\u2019s free-kick, stunningly took the lead through Sven Michel on 96 minutes.
\nBut former Liverpool centre-back Jarell Quansah made it 2-2 shortly before the extra-time interval.
\nWinners in 2023-24, Leverkusen will be joined by current cup holders Stuttgart, who won 2-0 at Mainz thanks to goals from Luca Jaquez and captain Atakan Karazor.
\nCentre-back Jaquez rose high to head in a corner with six minutes gone. With 73 minutes played, Karazor blasted in on the counter after Germany midfielder Angelo Stiller\u2019s clever dummy fooled the home defence.
\nFormer Liverpool goalkeeper Loris Karius endured an unhappy night as his Schalke side were thumped 4-0 by fellow second-division side Darmstadt.
\nWednesday\u2019s other winners Union Berlin, Freiburg, Magdeburg, and Kaiserslautern join Borussia Dortmund, Hertha Berlin, RB Leipzig, Hamburg, St Pauli, Borussia Moenchengladbach, Holstein Kiel and Bochum in the last 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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