Thomas Muller bagged a brace, while Harry Kane and Kingsley Coman also got on the scoresheet. In their first game as coach Vincent Kompany‘s team, Bayern Munich defeated Ulm of the second division 4-0 on Friday in the German Cup thanks to two goals from Thomas Mueller in the first three minutes of play.
In the first competitive match of the German football season, Harry Kane and Kingsley Coman added goals late in the second half to finish the crushing victory. After capturing the triple crown in 2019–20, Bayern, the 20-time German Cup winners, have never advanced past the competition’s quarterfinals.
After finishing the previous season without a trophy—their first without one since 2012—Bayer appointed Kompany as manager in the summer.
Twelve minutes in, the 34-year-old Mueller of Bayern added second goal by slotting in a cross from Serge Gnabry. Mueller first scored after a feed from Joshua Kimmich.
After 12 minutes, Mueller, 34, a veteran of Bayern, tapped in a ball from Joshua Kimmich. Shortly after, he scored another, tucking in a cross from Serge Gnabry.
With 11 minutes left, Coman finished off a feed from recent addition Michael Olise, and in injury time, Kane scored his first goal of the German Cup.
Even though each team trailed at one point, first-division teams Mainz, St. Pauli, and Hoffenheim all defeated lower league opponents to go past the German Cup’s opening round earlier on Friday.
On Saturday night, Bayer Leverkusen, the reigning German Cup winners and league champions from the previous season, will play Stuttgart at home in the DFL Supercup.
Ulm were promoted to the second division in summer for the first time in 23 years.
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