MUNICH: Bayern Munich’s Harry Kane and Luis Diaz scored within three minutes of each other as they beat RB Leipzig 2-0 in their quarter-final on Wednesday to keep up their pursuit of a first German Cup success in six years.
Kane successfully converted another penalty to hand the hosts a 64th-minute lead, followed by a goal for Diaz, who had claimed a hat-trick against Hoffenheim.
Kane’s penalty was his 39th goal in all competitions for Bayern this season, while Diaz’s goal was his fifth in his past three matches.
“I don’t know if he was born like that, but he has talent and he worked hard to improve it. And we’re enjoying these moments with Harry,” Bayern coach Vincent Kompany said of Kane.
The Colombian kept up his scoring spree in the 67th minute, as he got on the end of Michael Olise’s pass to beat Willi Orban to the ball and edged his finish past the onrushing goalkeeper Maarten Vandevoordt.
Vandevoordt had made several key first-half saves to keep two-time winners Leipzig in the contest past the hour mark but slipped as he came out to stop Josip Stanisic and fouled the Bayern attacker to give away the penalty, which Kane expertly tucked away.
Vandevoordt had saved from Kane early on in the match, before team-mate Castello Lukeba cleared off the line in the 11th minute, and the goalkeeper pulled off another reaction save from Kane on the stroke of halftime.
“When you want to win here you need a bit of the luck of the game and maybe a decision or two from the referee, but that luck wasn’t on our side today,” Leipzig captain David Raum told ARD. “We conceded two dumb goals — I think there was more in it for us.”
Bayern, who have won the German Cup a record 20 times but not since 2020, join holders VfB Stuttgart, Bayer Leverkusen and Freiburg in the semi-finals in April.
Published in Dawn, February 13th, 2026