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Bayer Leverkusen 3-0 Bayern Munich: Xabi Alonso's Bundesliga leaders dismantle champions to open up a five-point gap... as Josip Stanisic and Alex Grimaldo net and Jeremie Frimpong scores a screamer

In that final moment, as things became desperate, Xabi Alonso and Harry Kane made the same reaction, rocking sharply backwards with apprehension.

Kane was in possession on the edge of Leverkusen's area, Alonso was stood in his technical area unable to do anymore. But England's captain over-hit his pass, the BayArena erupted and the man who might just be Jurgen Klopp's successor had his biggest moment as a manager.

This night could not have been more wildly contrasting. Where everything went wrong for Kane and his ramshackle Bayern Munich team, Bayer Leverkusen were breathtaking, executing the plan Alonso had devised so perfectly that they dismantled Germany's perennially champions.