{"id":886794,"date":"2026-01-21T19:19:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T01:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/21\/bayern-munich-2-0-union-saint-gilloise-kanes-quickfire-brace-clinches-last-16-spot\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T19:19:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T01:19:03","slug":"bayern-munich-2-0-union-saint-gilloise-kanes-quickfire-brace-clinches-last-16-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/21\/bayern-munich-2-0-union-saint-gilloise-kanes-quickfire-brace-clinches-last-16-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayern Munich 2-0 Union Saint-Gilloise: Kane\u00b4s quickfire brace clinches last-16 spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer <\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mmwebhandler.aff-online.com\/C\/35442?sr=155474&#038;anid=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.soccernews.com\/wp-content\/themes\/SN\/images\/300x250_HR.gif\"><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Harry Kane scored twice and missed a penalty as Bayern Munich confirmed their place in the last 16 of the Champions League with a 2-0 win over Union Saint-Gilloise. <\/p>\n<p>Kane\u2019s goals came within three minutes of each other in the second half, though Bayern were forced to see out the last half-an-hour with 10 men after Kim Min-jae\u2019s red card.<\/p>\n<p>Bayern almost found themselves ahead inside the opening two minutes, but Union SG goalkeeper Kjell Scherpen was on hand to deny Kane from close range. <\/p>\n<p>The runaway Bundesliga leaders were frustrated throughout the first half and almost fell behind in the 20th minute, when Kevin Mac Allister slid a shot just wide from a free-kick. <\/p>\n<p>And the best chance of the half fell to the visitors 15 minutes before half-time, with Manuel Neuer producing a fine point-blank save from Promise David\u2019s powerful header. <\/p>\n<p>But just seven minutes after the restart, Bayern found the breakthrough when Kane brilliantly flicked Michael Olise\u2019s teasing corner from the right in at Scherpen\u2019s near post. <\/p>\n<p>Kane then doubled his and Bayern\u2019s tally from the penalty spot three minutes later, scoring emphatically from 12 yards after he was brought down by Scherpen in the area. <\/p>\n<p>Kim was then shown a second yellow card for an off-the-ball tug on Raul Florucz, but the hosts had the chance to add further gloss to the scoreline in the 80th minute. <\/p>\n<p>Kamiel Van de Perre handled Olise\u2019s cross into the box, but Kane was unable to repeat the trick with his second spot-kick, smashing his right-footed attempt against the crossbar.<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.soccernews.com\/bayern-munich-2-0-union-saint-gilloise-kane-s-quickfire-brace-clinches-last-16-spot\/395097\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>SoccerNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer Harry Kane scored twice and missed a penalty as Bayern Munich confirmed their place in the last 16 of the Champions League with a 2-0 win over Union Saint-Gilloise. Kane\u2019s goals came within three minutes of each other in the second half, though Bayern were forced to see out the last half-an-hour with 10 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":886795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26721,38526,2005],"tags":[7625,7626],"class_list":{"0":"post-886794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bayern","8":"category-munich","9":"category-soccer","10":"tag-bayern","11":"tag-munich"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/886795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}