Kane and Davies complete emphatic Bayern Munich win over Leverkusen

Normal service has been resumed in Germany. Perhaps it has in the Champions League, too, given Bayern Munich are in the quarter-finals for a sixth straight year. If Inter are treated with the same brutality they inflicted upon Bayer Leverkusen, whose brief spell as domestic kryptonite appears comprehensively over, they may move closer to lifting the trophy on home soil in May.

This may not have been as sedate as the walking pace at which Harry Kane nudged the opener but, in truth, it was not far off. Bayern never looked like losing even a fraction of the three-goal lead amassed in the first leg and could count once again on the England captain, whose presence on their scoresheet does not seem such a luxury any more. Something feels different this season and, in setting up Alphonso Davies for an emphatic second, he proved again that his efforts form part of a coherent whole nowadays. Vincent Kompany’s side are purring and any predictions that this tie would confirm a longer-term shift in the Bundesliga’s traditional power balance have been made to look absurd.