ROME — A goal and an assist from Harry Kane wasn't enough for Bayern Munich to beat Arsenal.
Kane's England teammate Declan Rice scored a second-half equalizer for last season's runner-up to secure a 2-2 draw at six-time winner Bayern in a matchup of two European heavyweights in the Champions League on Wednesday.
Rice traded passes with Viktor Gyokeres before finding the target eight minutes from time.
Kane converted a penalty earlier in the second half to increase his total to 16 goals in 23 career matches against Arsenal, having scored every season against the London club from 2014-15 to 2023-24 — mostly with Tottenham.
Kane also sent Alphonso Davies in on goal when Bayern responded to Eberechi Eze's opener for Arsenal.
Elsewhere, Real Madrid had a more straightforward 4-1 victory over Leipzig after needing three goals in the final 10 minutes of a victory over Roma last week.
Madrid faces Barcelona in the “clasico” on Sunday.
Earlier, Manchester United's crisis deepened after a 4-1 debacle at competition newcomer Como.
Also, Aston Villa moved second in the league-phase standings with a 3-1 win over Norwegian club Viking. Unai Emery’s team has won all three of its matches, scored 12 and conceded three to trail only two-time defending champion Paris Saint-Germain on goals scored.
In other results, it was: Inter Milan 1, Shakhtar Donetsk 0; Sporting Lisbon 2, LASK 3; Lille 2, Galatasaray 4; Club Brugge 3, Lens 0; and Real Betis 1, Feyenoord 0.
Man United struggles
United has now been outscored 6-1 in its last two European matches.
Nico Paz scored twice and also set up another score for Cesc Fabregas' Como, which was playing in the fourth division of Italian soccer just seven years ago.
“We got outplayed for most of the game so it was a very disappointing night," United midfielder Youri Tielemans said. "It’s everything. You can be good tactically but if the effort is not good (then it won't work) and vice versa. You need to be good at everything and tonight we were poor. It comes down to that.”
United was already in turmoil, with defender Lisandro Martinez last week calling out the club's hierarchy over its offseason recruitment, with director of football Jason Wilcox the apparent target of his criticism.
In January, Ruben Amorim had a fallout with Wilcox which swiftly led to the manager being fired after just 14 months in the job.
Now Carrick appears at risk.
In the other early game, Galatasaray won at Lille with Victor Osimhen scoring against one of his former clubs.
Nico Paz puts on a show
Paz has been auditioning to take over Lionel Messi’s playmaker spot with Argentina and his performance against United was a case in point.
At the tiny 10,000-seat Giuseppe Sinigaglia stadium, Paz put Como ahead two minutes in with a curling shot from the edge of the area when Harry Maguire allowed him some space.
United became the first English team to concede in the opening two minutes of consecutive major European matches after Pablo Barrios scored in the opening minute of Atletico Madrid’s 2-0 win last week.
Tasos Douvikas then took a pass from Paz before lobbing in over goalkeeper Senne Lammens for his third goal in three Champions League matches.
For Como’s third, Paz went in virtually uncontested before shooting around Lammens. Center back Jacobo Ramon scored Como's fourth.
Joshua Zirkzee pulled one back for United in the stoppage time.
United has won only one of its last 11 Champions League away matches.
Como moved up to sixth in the standings, while United dropped to 20th.
Galatasaray overcomes Diaoune's double
In France, 19-year-old Soriba Diaoune scored twice for Lille in the first half but it was 2-2 at the break before an own goal and a strike from Osimhen put Galatasaray in control.
It was Galatasaray’s first win of this season’s competition, while Lille has now lost all three of its matches.
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