Bayern Munich 7–0 Union Berlin: Olise and Kane Shine

The Allianz Arena will host the New England Patriots and Detroit Lions in November, but it already feels like an NFL venue. Bayern Munich are putting up American football numbers on a weekly basis.

This time Union Berlin took the punishment. Seven without reply. A Michael Olise hat trick. A Harry Kane double. A statement win that underlined just how ruthless Vincent Kompany’s side have become.

Musiala lights the fuse

Union arrived with a plan to sit deep and survive. It lasted 18 minutes.

Alphonso Davies, surging down the left as if the touchline belonged to him, picked his moment and his pass. Jamal Musiala, drifting into space outside the box, took over from there. One touch, then a crisp, long-range strike that ripped into the net and ripped up Union’s resistance.

The goal didn’t just open the scoring; it opened the floodgates.

Kane joins the party

Bayern smelled weakness and leaned on it. The pressure mounted, the runs became sharper, the gaps wider. Just over 20 minutes after Musiala’s opener, Kane stepped up from the spot and did what he has done his entire career: finished with cold precision.

The England captain, a devoted NFL fan, is used to watching big scores, not creating them. But in Munich, the lines are blurring. The Allianz scoreboard is starting to look like a Sunday night in Foxborough.

Union staggered. Bayern didn’t wait for them to recover.

Musiala, now in full playmaker mode, turned provider before the break. He slipped Olise through and the 24-year-old, freshly named in Zinedine Zidane’s first France squad, began his own demolition job with the first of his three goals.

3–0 at halftime, and the contest was effectively over. Bayern decided the spectacle wasn’t.

Olise takes control

Kompany dipped into his bench for the second half, and it only made Bayern more dangerous. Tom Bischof came on and immediately found a rhythm with Olise. The pair linked twice, carving Union open as if they were training-ground mannequins.

The pressure finally told again in the 54th minute. Olise, now everywhere between the lines, turned creator, sliding a pass into Kane’s path. One touch, one finish. 4–0. The kind of combination that makes defenders wonder where to look and coaches wonder how to stop it.

Union had no answer. They barely had time to breathe.

Ismael Saibari joined the scoresheet on 70 minutes, another move sparked by Davies. The Canadian international, relentless down the flank, picked out Saibari, and the finish matched the build-up. 5–0, and still Bayern pushed.

Then Olise went back to work.

His second and third goals came in a blur, the hat trick sealed with another long-range strike that left Frederik Ronnow with no realistic chance. The Union goalkeeper could only watch as the ball flew past him, the kind of shot that makes a stadium gasp before it roars.

Olise walked off with the match ball and a growing reputation. Eight goals in seven matches across all competitions since returning from the World Cup. Kane, with six in the same stretch, suddenly looks like he has serious competition for the spotlight.

Kompany’s attack in full flight

Bayern remain unbeaten this season, their only blemish a goalless draw with Schalke on 5 September that briefly checked their perfect start and left them trailing Freiburg and Borussia Dortmund in the Bundesliga table.

They responded not with caution, but with firepower.

Fourteen league goals already, and a front line that looks as if it could score at will. Davies flying. Musiala knitting everything together. Olise and Kane finishing with clinical edge. Kompany’s attack is not just functioning; it’s roaring.

The Patriots and Lions will bring their own points to the Allianz Arena in November, but on this evidence, they’re only borrowing the stage. In Munich this season, Bayern look determined to be the only team rewriting the scoreboard.