Online Reporter
BAYERN Munich need just two goals at St Pauli today to break the 54-year goalscoring record for a German Bundesliga football season.
Vincent Kompany’s runaway league leaders have already scored 100 Bundesliga goals this season – just one goal short of the best mark in German top-flight history – with six matches of the 34-game campaign still to play.
The previous record was set in 1971-72 by a barnstorming Bayern side featuring club legends Franz Beckenbauer, Gerd Mueller and Uli Hoeness.
That Bayern have already brought up their Bundesliga century shows their dominance this term.
At their current rate, Bayern are on track for 121 goals, which would be a better mark than the record in either the English Premier League or Spanish LaLiga, which both have 38-game seasons.
Even the all-time mark in a top-five European league of 125, set by Torino in a 40-game Italian Serie A season in 1947-48, would be within reach.
If Bayern may have to achieve the feat without Harry Kane, who is chasing a league record of his own.
With 31 goals in 26 Bundesliga appearances, Kane is 10 short of the all-time record of 41 set by Robert Lewandowski in 2020-21.
Kane missed England’s March internationals with an ankle injury but returned to score what proved to be the winner in Bayern’s 2-1 Champions League win at Real Madrid on Tuesday.
However the England captain did not look 100 per cent and could be rested against St Pauli with Wednesday’s quarter-final second leg in mind.
One player almost certain to start is Michael Olise, who is also on track for a record-breaking season.
Olise, who assisted Kane’s goal against Real, has laid on 18 Bundesliga goals so far this campaign, three short of the all-time record set by Thomas Mueller in 2019-20. – AFP Sport.
