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Harry Kane is likely to miss Bayern Munich’s game against Eintracht Frankfurt on Sunday, having yet to fully recover from a calf injury.
The England captain is the top-scorer in the Bundesliga this term, netting 21 times in the league so far this term, and sustained the injury in Tuesday’s Champions League play-off second leg against Celtic.
Kane has registered the highest expected goals (xG) total in the league this season with 16.0, overperforming his xG by five goals.
Bayern drew a blank in their 0-0 draw with Bayer Leverkusen last time out in the Bundesliga, with Kane’s absence potentially coming at a bad time.
However, he is only expected to be sidelined for a few days, with Vincent Kompany confident he will be back for their next outing against Stuttgart next week.
“It is not the first time this season that we will have to solve this situation,” Kompany told a press conference.
“We cannot replace Harry one-to-one because not many players can score 40 or 50 goals per season.
“We will try to find the best solution [on Sunday] to win the game. If he is out we will solve it within the squad. We still have one training session.
“It is good that we are not talking about three or four weeks. It is about a short-term situation.”
Bayern’s draw with Leverkusen last time out was the first time they have failed to score in the league this season, while they face a Frankfurt side that have scored in each of their last 21 games after failing to find the net against Borussia Dortmund in their Bundesliga opener.
Bayern are currently eight points clear at the top of the Bundesliga, though second-place Leverkusen play on Saturday, and are looking to improve on their impressive home record.
Bayern have won nine consecutive home games in the competition for the first time since 2020. They have scored at least three goals in each of these nine matches – in league history, only Bayern themselves have ever managed a longer scoring run of this kind (11 home games in a row in 1993).
“We now have Frankfurt at home. You know we can bring special moments in this stadium with our fans, and that’s our only focus,” Kompany added.
“The goal is always that we perform to our best in the next game. You can never change what happened in the last game.
“There’s been a lot of games in a short space of time. We now need to make sure that we’re top again [on Sunday].”
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