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Kane: UCL ‘suits me’ better than Bundesliga
Harry Kane has said the Champions League offers more opportunities to score than the Bundesliga after bagging two goals in Bayern Munich’s 3-1 win over Chelsea on Wednesday.
The England star tucked away a penalty after he was brought down by Moisés Caicedo, then capitalised on teammates’ pressure on Malo Gusto when the ball fell kindly for him to fire inside the far post.
“I always feel like in the Champions League you create maybe more chances than the Bundesliga, the games are maybe a bit more open, and that suits me,” Kane told broadcaster DAZN.
“Hopefully I can get more than 11 this year,” he added, referring to his tally in the Champions League last season.
The 32-year-old has already scored nine goals in five games across all competitions for Bayern so far this season — 10 goals in six games including the German Supercup.
“It’s always the aim to improve and get better,” Kane said.
Bayern got the scoring underway when Michael Olise forced an own goal from Trevoh Chalobah and might have scored more against a Chelsea team that seemed to fizzle out of energy the longer the game went on.
Cole Palmer responded to Kane’s first goal with a brilliant finish of his own and he also produced a smart finish to beat Manuel Neuer late on, but that score was chalked off for offside after a VAR review.
Otherwise, the visitors had little to cheer after a summer of intense transfer activity, with Bayern getting its third straight win over Chelsea since the clubs met in the 2012 Champions League final when the visitors upset the hosts in Munich.
“Top performance against a really good side,” Kane said.
“We spoke before the game that we were playing the club world champions and we had to be on it from the start, and we were.”
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Kane said Bayern’s work off-the-ball was key to forcing mistakes from Enzo Maresca’s team.
“I think with the ball possession, making angles, helping each other. You saw me and Serge [Gnabry] drop in quite a lot to make it difficult for them to press. They were always kind of minus one and as the game went on, I felt like they got more tired, the spaces opened up and we were able to exploit that.”
Kane’s second goal came directly from Bayern’s pressure.
“We talk a lot about when the other teams try and play, you know we’re always two or three seconds away from having a chance ourselves,” he said.
“You saw that with the pressure and you saw that throughout the whole game. There were opportunities that we had when we won the ball back quickly, so yeah, it kind of fell to me in a nice place and it was a good finish.”
Kane made way in stoppage time for Nicolas Jackson — who is loan from Chelsea — to face his parent club.
The Senegal forward tried an ambitious effort from distance that drifted wide in the little time he had to make an impact.
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Cardinals placing QB Murray on injured reserve
TEMPE, Ariz. — Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray will go on injured reserve as he continues to rehabilitate a foot injury he suffered in Week 5, coach Jonathan Gannon said Wednesday.
The injury isn’t season-ending, Gannon said. Murray will have a chance to return if his foot gets healthy.
“I really do [hope that happens],” Gannon said. “We got a lot of ball to play, and one day at a time. And where he sits right now is he’s got to pour into his health bucket and get ready to get healthy.”
With Murray out for at least the next four weeks, Jacoby Brissett will continue to be the Cardinals’ starter with Kedon Slovis as his backup. Gannon said the Cardinals will look to add another quarterback.
“Jacoby does his job, takes it one day at a time, prepares when he wasn’t the starter, prepares to be the starter,” Gannon said. “He knows his role can change, and now he’s going to prepare the same way.”
Murray would be eligible to return in Week 14 against the Los Angeles Rams (Dec. 7).
The decision to put Murray on IR came together Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, Gannon said. It was a collective decision between the team and Murray, along with his representatives.
In the end, Gannon said, it was the best thing to do for Murray and for the team.
“He’s not fully healthy, ready to go yet, so that makes the most sense,” Gannon said. “Obviously that’s a change, but we just felt. looking at it right now, that’s the best thing for him and us.
“He’s fully committed. Right now, what he’s going to concentrate on is getting healthy. He’s not healthy enough to play. He needs to get healthy so he can get back to playing football.”
After weeks of uncertainty about whether Murray would or wouldn’t be healthy enough to play, Gannon said the decision to put Murray on injured reserve was based on the information the team currently has.
Gannon said it was “very fair” to say that Murray’s foot injury was a situation tougher for him to return from than other quarterbacks who don’t rely on their legs to make plays as much as Murray does.
“Obviously, for him, it prevents him from being fully healthy to go play, and him, as the person that he is and the player that he is, yes,” Gannon said. “And you could look at other things, like this injury for other people might not, but he’s played through some things that other positions, if they have those, they can’t play with those because of what they’re asked to do.”
Gannon said that Murray took the news “as good as you can take it” and added that the quarterback is in a good place to focus on his rehab.
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Tiger’s son joins dad with All-America selection
BRASELTON, Ga. — Charlie Woods now shares one honor with Tiger Woods, as the son of the 15-time major champion was named as a first-team All-American by the American Junior Golf Association on Wednesday.
Charlie Woods, a junior at The Benjamin School in South Florida, was among 12 boys named to the first team of the AJGA’s annual list. Miles Russell, the 17-year-old who was an alternate at the Walker Cup this summer, was selected player of the year for the second time.
Tiger Woods was the AJGA’s player of the year in 1991 and 1992.
Charlie Woods won his first big title at the Team TaylorMade Invitational in May.
The AJGA second team included Mason Howell, who won the U.S. Amateur and played in the Walker Cup, and Cameron Kuchar, the son of Matt Kuchar, who plans to attend TCU.
Aphrodite Deng, the Canadian living in New Jersey, was player of the year in the girls’ division. Deng won the U.S. Girls Junior this year, along with two big AJGA events.
The teams were determined exclusively through the Rolex AJGA Rankings as of Oct. 14.
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