I will say this again. This has been only one match so far and we should not judge how a team is going to perform just based on one match. I know that the performance from Harry Kane has been good in the first match. But still, a long way to go in this season. And whenever I think about how Bayern Munich finished the last season, I start to think that probably they are going to be inconsistent again.
It is a good match from Harry Kane but he can do better than that and Bayern Munich expect more from him as well. Kane still has a long season to show his contribution for Bayern Munich, first to satisfy the club expectation on him and more important, to satisfy his ambition to win big titles that is a biggest reason why he left Tottenham.
He had many better performances for Tottenham, scored more goals, made more assists but Bayern Munich need his contribution in big matches as it is more helpful for them to win titles especially in Champions League. An assessment on a player like a success or failure in a season is very slim. In the past season we see Choupo-Moting was considered as a surprising success for Bayern before World Cup 2022. However after his bad tournament for Cameroon in Word Cup, and his poor performance in two matches with Manchester City, he was no longer considered as a successful replacement for Lewandowski.
But on the positive side, we can say that in the last season of Bayern Munich, they did not have a proper striker. But now that they have Harry Kane and probably perform better. They will probably be consistent as well.
They had Choupo-Moting in the last season as a temporary alternative for Lewandowski and now they have Harry Kane as their main striker and an official replacement for the Polish striker.
I definitely do not think that Choupo-Moting was actually a good replacement for Robert Lewandowski. And when I said that they did not have a genuine striker, I meant that they did not have a striker that could actually take up the responsibility of replacing Robert Lewandowski successfully.
And I am not saying that Choupo-Moting is a bad striker. But when compared to Robert Lewandowski, he is definitely not anywhere near in my opinion.
And when I was saying that it has only been one match, and we should wait for a few matches to actually guess what is going to happen, I did not mean that somehow Harry Kane, who is one of the best strikers in the world, somehow become Harry Maguire. I was saying that we should wait to see if he can actually play as well as he has been doing so far. The start for him has definitely been good.