England captain Harry Kane scored a hat-trick as defending champions Bayern Munich began the Bundesliga season by thrashing RB Leipzig. It took 27 minutes for the hosts to break the deadlock when Michael Olise sent a powerful strike into the far corner after the ball dropped invitingly into his path.

Harry Kane has scored a hat trick as Bayern Munich started its Bundesliga title defense with a 6-0 demolition of Leipzig.

Harry Kane grabbed the headlines with a splendid second half hattrick while Michael Olise scored a brace with Luis Diaz also getting into the scoresheet on his Bundesliga debut. This was Kane's eighth Bundesliga hattrick and he scored all three goals in the second half within a space of 13 minutes.