Key stats
- Since the start of the 2024/25 UEFA Champions League season, no player has scored more goals in the competition than Harry Kane (13, level with Raphinha and Serhou Guirassy).
- Chelsea have lost their last three games in the Champions League, their longest losing streak in the competition (since at least 2004/2005).
- Bayern Munich have not lost any of their last 44 UEFA Champions League games when ahead at half time (W42 D2), since a 2-1 home defeat to Real Madrid in April 2017.
Highlights
Analysis
Harry Kane scored the highest Flashscore rating in the match with two goals earning the England captain a 8.7 Flashscore rating.
Match report
Returning to the top international stage after lifting both the UEFA Conference League and FIFA Club World Cup last season, Chelsea looked up for the challenge in the opening stages, having particular joy through Malo Gusto and Cole Palmer on the right-hand side.
But Bayern – who went unbeaten in 16 successive UCL home matches until losing to Inter in last season’s quarter-finals – started to find their feet, and Harry Kane headed over in the lead up to the opener.
Michael Olise wreaked havoc on the right and sent a teasing ball into the six-yard box, where Trevoh Chalobah couldn’t avoid kneeing into his own net.
Bayern’s pressure didn’t let up, leading to Kane drawing a penalty after tussling with Moisés Caicedo in the area. The Englishman dusted himself off to find the bottom right for his 24th goal in 25 attempts from the spot for Bayern.
The hosts hadn’t really played that well in accruing that healthy advantage, so it seemed justified when Chelsea pulled one back just moments later. Palmer received it on the halfway line and raced towards the Bayern box, before exchanging a one-two with Gusto and stroking it into the top corner.
Chelsea appeared to have carried that momentum into the second half, but they couldn’t make the most of it and allowed Bayern back on the front foot. Two brilliant saves from Robert Sánchez from Kane and Olise kept the Blues in it, but the Spaniard was powerless to stop the former from finding the bottom corner after he pounced onto Gusto’s loose pass.
Enzo Maresca made substitutions in an attempt to salvage something, but it showed his side’s luck was truly out when Palmer was ruled marginally offside when touching in Andrey Santos’ pass.
The win continues Bayern’s 100% record in competitive fixtures to begin the season, and will give Vincent Kompany hope that his side can do better than their UCL quarter-final exits in five of the last six seasons.
Chelsea became the first side to score at this venue this campaign, but their first trip outside of London this term ultimately didn’t go Maresca’s way.
Flashscore Man of the Match: Harry Kane (Bayern Munich)
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Post-match reaction
Bayern Munich forward Harry Kane told DAZN: "Amazing result. It was a tough game against a really good side. We said before the game they're club world champions. We had it to be on it from the start, and we were.
"In the second half we created the better chances and it was good to get that second goal. As the game went on it felt like they got more tired, spaces opened up and we were able to exploit that.
"We talked a lot about when other teams try to play we're only two or three seconds from having a chance ourselves. It fell to me in a nice place and was a good finish.
Chelsea goalscorer Cole Palmer said to DAZN: "I thought we played well. We've shown we deserve to play here. The three goals we conceded were our own fault. We had chances.
"We broke them down well but some chances we missed. They're a good team. We deserved better than what we got."