Alphonso Davies' Bayern Munich held to draw by Champions League minnows Viking FK
For the second UEFA Champions League match in a row, Alphonso Davies' Bayern Munich found themselves up against a Norwegian opponent. This time it went very differently.
The Canada captainscored a brilliant goal against Bodø/Glimt in a 5-0 thrashingin the opening round of the competition at Allianz Arena, but this time the German giants made a 1,600km trip north to play the competition debutants Viking FK and had to settle for a 3-3 draw. The hosts were up 2-0 at halftime of what would have been one of the biggest giant killings in tournament history, but after Bayern scored three unanswered goals at the start of the second half Viking came storming back to tie it again in the 90th minute.
Davies come on at the break but was unable to find the scoresheet again. Viking scored at the two bookends of the match.
Gianni Stensness headed in the opener in just the second minute from a corner kick, before Peter Christiansen picked out the bottom-right corner on a rare counter-attack for his side in the 38th. Bayern dominated the whole game, but the hosts scored on two of their three first half shots for an unlikely advantage.
It didn't take Harry Kane long to turn things around when play resumed. The England captain took advantage of a lifeline when the referee pointed to the spot, placing the ball into the bottom-right corner in the 54th minute to make it 2-1.
Six minutes later he headed in a cross from Joshua Kimmich for his second to tie the game. Viking lost their first-ever match in this competition to another German club, Stuttgart, falling 3-1, with all four goals came in the span of 12 minutes - Zlatko Tripić interrupted a quick Ermedin Demirović hat trick.
It looked like Bayern might start to run away with it after tying the game, and even more so when Luis Diaz tapped in their third in the 71st minute. Michael Olise was given two yellow cards in quick succession just three minutes later - one for a poor tackle on Henrik Heggheim and one for throwing the ball at Tripić's face seconds later.
Down a man, Bayern let Herman Haugen get his head on a cross into the six-yard box with the clock ticking into the 90th minute, which he redirected into the bottom-right corner. It was the second assist for Tripić, who was arguably the best player on the park, apart from Kane maybe, against a star-studded opponent.
Christiansen nearly won it for Viking in stoppage time, but an attempt to pick out the near post from the left side of the box was saved by Jonas Urbig. The 15,900-capacity Viking Stadion was a vastly different experience to if the game had been held at the 75,000-seat Allianz Arena.