Kudos to Kane Bayern's £86m ace is not cursed: he is putting together one of the great seasons

There was another Harry Kane moment at the weekend: those moments when the air feels thin and the pulse races just a little faster and the margins have sharpened to a fine point.

- Jonathan Liew

Kane has spent most of the last decade of his career being the most watched, the most scrutinised, and the most outnumbered player on the pitch. The percentages in this job are staggeringly low. Still he checks and feints and shuffles and drifts, looking and longing for that elusive yard of space.

It finally arrives in the 91st minute against RB Leipzig, the game level at 1-1, Bayern Munich's title challenge crumbling right here on the Allianz turf. Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting brings down a long ball and flicks it over the head of the defender. The touch is heavy. Choupo-Moting was trying to keep the ball for himself. But now it sits up unexpectedly for Kane, and all that is required now is a left-footed volley from 14 yards, on the turn and through two blocking defenders.

In a way Kane's second goal on Saturday evening was a pretty good summation of his debut season at Bayern. Not just the skill and sense of occasion, but the caprice of the moment, the desperate need to turn and make some sanity out of the muddling chaos around him. A departing manager and an unhappy dressing room. Another flawed and faltering performance. A meaningless punt into the channel. An inadvertent cross. These are not the ingredients you give your £86m star chef if you want him to cook. And yet somehow, most weeks, Kane manages to serve up something palatable.