"Harry Kane? Well, he scores hat-tricks off the bench. That's exactly what he did against VfB Stuttgart. Kane only entered the game in the 61st minute. It only took the Englishman five minutes to get his name on the scoresheet after his fantastic finish from outside the box. By the end of the 90 minutes, Kane signed his scorecard with a hat-trick in 30 minutes of game time."
"We have four games in 11 days. If I start Harry every game and he plays 90 minutes, I'll get questions about why he always plays. Every time we played Stuttgart we've always grown stronger as the game progressed. I felt the spaces would be bigger when Harry came on, it was a good moment for him to come. And he did what he does."
Harry Kane entered the VfB Stuttgart match in the 61st minute and completed a hat-trick within 30 minutes, including a spectacular strike from outside the box five minutes after coming on. Bayern Munich's top scorer delivered an emphatic impact off the bench. Manager Vincent Kompany planned the substitution ahead of kick-off to manage a congested schedule of four games in 11 days and to exploit increasing spaces late in matches. Kompany judged that starting Kane every match would raise questions and that introducing him later would be tactically advantageous. The benching decision produced the intended result.
Read at Bavarian Football Works
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]