Half an hour into his last look for Tottenham Hotspur towards Manchester United, the opposition followers burst right into a vigorous verse of “Harry Kane, we’ll see you in June!”
Nevertheless, Kane moved to Munich moderately than Manchester throughout the summer time of 2023. Forward of Bayern Munich’s Champions League group-stage opener towards United a matter of weeks after Kane’s arrival, the prolific ahead insisted that Bavaria was “the appropriate alternative”.
Kane’s new supervisor Thomas Tuchel agreed. “Anybody in Europe who was searching for a No 9 would have been blissful to have Harry within the workforce,” the previous Chelsea boss insisted. As Manchester United can attest, you actually don’t need Kane lining up towards you.
Kane’s maiden look at Outdated Trafford got here earlier than he had damaged his manner into Tottenham’s first workforce. Changing Roberto Soldado – extremely sat forward of Kane within the pecking order – Tottenham‘s then-number 37 received onto the pitch for the ultimate quarter-hour of a uncommon away win towards United.
Throughout Kane’s first six appearances towards the Pink Devils, he failed to attain.
It wasn’t till United’s journey to north London on the penultimate weekend of the 2016/17 season that Kane lastly confirmed the northern giants his medical edge up shut. By the way, Kane’s first aim towards United was the final one any Tottenham participant ever scored at White Hart Lane. A second half strike in Could not solely secured victory over Manchester United however ensured that Spurs went unbeaten at residence all through their last season on the Lane.
“Respect, respect, respect!” Kane actually has loads of it however that was what Jose Mourinho was demanding after Spurs, impressed by their talisman as ever, romped to a 3-0 win at Outdated Trafford in 2018.
Kane was on the epicentre of one other Outdated Trafford implosion two years later – though, Mourinho was on the appropriate aspect of the outcome this time.
Within the midst of the grim 2020/21 lockdown marketing campaign, United’s assist had been maybe grateful to not be within the Theatre of Desires for a nightmarish 6-1 hammering. Kane’s fast free-kick set Son Heung-min away to attain Tottenham’s second after seven minutes. The South Korea worldwide teed up Kane on the half-hour mark earlier than England‘s skipper transformed a penalty to seal the humiliation. Oddly sufficient, Mourinho did not demand any respect on that afternoon.
Between the summer time of 2019 and his free switch to Juventus three years later, Paul Pogba scored fewer targets at Outdated Trafford (one) than Kane (three).
Nevertheless, a tally of 5 targets from 18 Premier League appearances towards the Pink Devils is certainly one of Kane’s much less spectacular information within the competitors. Throughout his time in England’s high flight, 16 golf equipment conceded extra targets on the ft of Tottenham’s talisman than United.
Moreover, Kane has solely misplaced extra video games to Chelsea (11) than Manchester United (ten) throughout all competitions.
Harry Kane’s H2H document towards Man Utd
|
Golf equipment |
Matches |
Gained |
Drawn |
Misplaced |
Targets scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Tottenham |
19 |
6 |
3 |
10 |
5 |
Kane was already 23 and had performed 180 aggressive membership video games – together with 18 in England’s third tier – earlier than he made his Champions League debut for Tottenham towards Monaco in 2016. Tottenham’s quantity ten failed to attain however that might show to be a gross anomaly.
Throughout his subsequent 4 appearances in Europe’s premier membership competitors, Kane racked up seven targets. The primary participant to ever rating 9 targets throughout his opening 9 video games within the competitors was making up for misplaced time.
A second-half brace from Kane helped overturn a 2-0 first-half deficit towards Olympiacos in November 2019, taking his tally to twenty Champions League targets after simply 24 appearances. No participant had ever hit that mark faster within the competitors’s historical past on the time however a sure Erling Haaland wanted simply 14 video games to smash Kane’s milestone.
Regardless of repeatedly rating as one of the prolific gamers domestically, Kane solely loved yet one more Champions League season with Tottenham. Throughout his last marketing campaign in north London, Kane scored simply as soon as in Europe – fewer than even Richarlison.
Harry Kane’s favorite Champions League opponents
|
Opponent |
Video games |
Targets |
|---|---|---|
|
Borussia Dortmund |
3 |
4 |
|
Olympiakos |
2 |
3 |
|
PSV |
2 |
3 |
|
APOEL |
1 |
3 |
|
Pink Star |
2 |
2 |
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