If Harry Kane will end his long pursuit of a big prize by lifting this trophy in Munich in May, then work was done first to kill Celtic.
Kane scored in Glasgow, a city where he never set goals. He has them for England in Hampden Park, hits the target with Tottenham against Rangers at Ibrox and he completed the set for the last time on Wednesday evening in Parkhead.
His 29th of his second season in Bayern Colors proved the winner at night and the Vincent Kompany team will give a vital lead that will go the second stage of this Champions League play-off the next week.
Michael Olise gave the visitors the lead with a great goal at the end of the first half and Kane made the score at 2-0 with a volley shortly after the break, but it turned out to be the cue for the home team to stir in and produce a late flowering and produce a late flowering.
Daizzen Maeda withdrew one to give Hope to Brendan Rodgers and his team while they go to Germany, but the Scots can live to regret that they have not found their rhythm before, or purpose excluded in the first seconds of the game .
Celtic thought they had made the perfect start of their first Champions League knock-out draw in a dozen year when Nicolas Kuhn shot from right in and Bayern keeper Manuel Neuer defeated a bustling ride within 30 seconds.
The sound broke out, but there was a flag up and Adam Idah was past the middle of half the day in the middle, half a meter offside and firmly in the eye line of Neuer. The goal was excluded and the visitors who have escaped early punishment settled to dominate the possession of long spells.
Celtic fell deep to protect Kasper Schmeichel in their goal, seduces their visitors to them in search of the quick counterattack on sales. Bayern was rarely in trouble in the first half. Upamecano and Eric Dier, recalled in the central defense, mopped most of the things, and yet they found it difficult to penetrate the hoop rangs.
Kane drove more widely in search of space and deeper looking for the ball. His early details were hunted, his mistakes were cheering up, but he was only volatile. A great opportunity came his way with half an hour.
Leroy Sane beat a cross on his head and formed the left and Kane looked for sure to convert while he jumped to make the header.
He met it clean, planted it down and Schmeichel saved his legs, and Kane turned out to be in an offside position, so that it would not have counted. Then the captain of England led another chance in the side of a corner at the rear pole.
Kompany's Bayern did not travel well in the Champions League. They lost in Aston Villa, Barcelona and Feyenoord and the only 'road' match they won in the competition phase came to a neutral location on German soil against Shakhtar Donetsk in Gelskirchen.
Celtic was of the Rustwilder within a few seconds when Olise struck. The former wing player of Crystal Palace pulled a long Upamecano -pass from heaven with difficult grace, haunted Greg Taylor in the left and gave Schmeichel the eyes to go well after his left foot before he struck it in the upper corner in the nearby pole .
It was a cruel blow to the home team, but Bayern earned the management and Kane extended it shortly after the interval when he escaped his marker at the rear post and passed a corner shape Joshua Kimminch
Kane made it 2-0 within four minutes. Unmarked on the back post while he met a corner of Joshua Kimmich on the volley and wiped it neatly past Schmeichel.
It was his 19th goal along the Danish keeper and he scored him along each of their last six meetings.
Celtic finally stirred and attacked with a little more freedom and fluency after admitting the second. Reo Hatate had bent a wide attempt and there was a long variety, because the Spanish officials ruled that there had been no mistake by Upamecano on Arne Engels.
Maeda went close when he defeated Neuer in a race and cut a shot over the face of an open goal. Then the Japan Forward found the net from the corner and the home team produced a strong finish, but Bayern has a leadership to defend in Munich.
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