Wayne Rooney blasts Harry Kane’s ‘incredible’ post-match interview claims on Bayern Munich and PSG’s nine-goal Champions League thriller

Wayne Rooney criticised Harry Kane’s evaluation of Bayern Munich’s efficiency after he hailed their defenders within the thrilling 5-4 first leg in opposition to Paris Saint-Germain.

Bayern misplaced by one objective in a chaotic nine-goal epic on the Parc des Princes on an evening the place the standard of each groups’ forwards was hailed.

However Kane, who opened the scoring with a first-half penalty, as a substitute selected to deal with his facet’s defence in a post-match Amazon Prime interview.

‘Though there was 9 objectives scored, there was some wonderful defending on the market within the 1v1 battles,’ Kane stated.

‘You’ve got bought the perfect gamers on the earth. The most effective attackers, the perfect defenders. In fact, generally the attackers are going to come back out on prime and present their high quality.

Rooney, working as a pundit, was not impressed with Kane’s claims in a post-match interview

‘Whenever you return and take a look at the centre-halves taking part in in midfield, in assault generally, out extensive in opposition to the wingers, credit score to them. It is a actually arduous job. I believed they have been excellent.’

However Rooney thought his former England team-mate’s feedback have been nonsense.

‘Hear, I really like Harry Kane,’ Rooney stated. ‘However there is not any manner he might be praising his defenders.’

Vincent Kompany’s males had a backline of Jonathan Tah, goalscorer Dayot Upamecano, Alphonso Davies and Josip Stanisic in entrance of Manuel Neuer.

‘Perhaps as a result of they’re his team-mates he’s making an attempt to offer them a little bit of confidence for subsequent week,’ Rooney added.

‘I feel the defending from each groups tonight was actually dangerous, so I feel he is being a bit modest there.’

Thierry Henry, in the meantime, stated viewers mustn’t care if the defending was poor.

Talking on CBS he stated: ‘We have been saying lately that we have been seeing groups that weren’t taking dangers, gamers who weren’t dribbling, groups that have been taking part in to not lose as a substitute of profitable. Tonight, there was a number of risk-taking.

Kane was impressed with the standard of defending within the PSG 5-4 Bayern match

So in case you have been sporting your pro-defensive hat, sure, you may go loopy watching tonight’s match… However I do not care.

‘We have been complaining for a yr or two that soccer is boring, and this match wasn’t! If we go away the skilled facet of issues at residence, I had enjoyable, and I feel everybody at residence had enjoyable too. It was simply loopy.’

French sports activities each day newspaper L’Equipe hailed ‘Soccer Complete’ on their entrance web page on Wednesday morning, whereas in Germany, BILD’s sports activities editor wrote: ‘By no means earlier than had there been a lot amazement – ​​and head-shaking in disbelief.’

It was one other night time of non-public accomplishment for Kane, whose objective broke Steven Gerrard’s report by scoring in six consecutive Champions League appearances.

He additionally performed a key position in Bayern’s stirring second-half comeback from three objectives behind.

The return leg in Munich is scheduled for subsequent Tuesday with Bayern and PSG preventing it out to face the winner of Atletico Madrid vs Arsenal – with the primary leg of that tie happening on the Metropolitano in Madrid this night.