Harry Kane scored his second Bundesliga hat-trick of the season as Bayern Munich downed Hoffenheim 4-1 on Saturday, while Hamburg won in the top flight for the first time in seven years.
Man of the match with two goals in Wednesday's 3-1 win over Chelsea in the Champions League, the England captain kept up his prolific form in a heavily rotated Bayern side.
Coach Vincent Kompany made five changes, including handing Chelsea loanee Nicolas Jackson a first start.
Bayern lacked rhythm early and Hoffenheim had the better early chances, but Kane struck before half-time, slicing in from a corner.
Any hopes Hoffenheim had of an upset were snuffed out just after half-time, when Kane converted from the spot after Bayern were awarded a dubious penalty for a handball.
Kane added another from the spot in the 77th minute after a VAR review for a foul on Michael Olise.
Hoffenheim's Vladimir Coufal got his side on the board late on when his free-kick was deflected in.
Former Hoffenheim forward Serge Gnabry added a fourth in stoppage time to seal Bayern's seventh win in seven matches this season in all competitions.
Kane now has 13 goals this term, including eight in four Bundesliga fixtures.
He has 98 goals in 103 games overall since joining Bayern in 2023. This hat-trick was his ninth for the club.
“Hat-trick Harry is what they called me in school,” Kane told DAZN, “that one kind of stuck when I was younger.”
Kane has converted all 17 of his penalties in the Bundesliga. The England captain said that keeping the streak alive “is not easy… I prepare a lot, I practise a lot.
“Any ball in the box, whether penalty or not, I back myself to hit the target.”
– First Hamburg win since 2018 –
In Hamburg, the promoted hosts beat lowly Heidenheim 2-1 to secure their first top-flight win in 2,688 days, or seven years and four months.
Hamburg had failed to score in three matches since returning to the Bundesliga this summer, but Luka Vuskovic tapped in a rebound from a free-kick just before the break.
Arsenal loanee Fabio Vieira created Hamburg's second with half an hour to go, cutting back the ball to Rayan Philippe who stroked it home.
Heidenheim scored in stoppage time through Adam Koelle, which kick-started a wild end-to-end battle, but Hamburg held on.
In Saturday's late game, RB Leipzig turned on the style in the first half to win 3-1 at home to promoted Cologne.
Assan Ouedraogo put the hosts in front after 13 minutes, hammering in a bouncing ball in the box.
Cologne's Jan Thielmann scored 10 minutes later but Brazilian striker Romulo was on the spot to knock in a Christoph Baumgartner shot saved by visiting goalkeeper Marvin Schwaebe.
In the fourth minute of first-half stoppage time, Leipzig captain David Raum curled a brilliant free kick into the top right corner to put his side in the driver's seat.
Leipzig controlled the second half despite waves of Cologne attack, handing the visitors their first defeat since returning to the top flight in the summer.
Leipzig have now won three games in a row since their opening round 6-0 thrashing by Bayern.
Elsewhere, Freiburg won 3-0 at Werder Bremen and Mainz triumphed 4-1 at Augsburg despite being reduced to 10 men when Dominik Kohr was sent off early in the second half.
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