Auckland City shut down Kane .. and concede 10 against Bayern at Club World Cup

• German champions have 31 shots during rout
  
• New Zealand part-timers suffer through tough afternoon

The good news for Auckland City was that they stopped Harry Kane scoring on Sunday afternoon in Cincinnati. The bad news was that his Bayern Munich teammates were a little more prolific, scoring 10 between them in the opening match of their Club World Cup campaign.
If Fifa president Gianni Infantino was hoping his expanded Club World Cup ? now containing 32 teams, playing across four weeks in 11 US cities ? would showcase the depth of talent in global football, this was not a good example. The statistics were excruciating: the German champions had 31 shots ? 17 of them on target ? to Auckland?s one, and enjoyed 72% of possession. It took 52 years for a team to score 10 goals in a Fifa World Cup game ? Hungary beat El Salvador 10-1 in 1982 ? it?s taken just two games for a team to score 10 under the Club World Cup?s new format (the largest previous win at the tournament was 6-1, when Al-Hilal beat Al-Jazira in 2021 when just seven teams took part).
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