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Grassau (dpa) - Now or never ?!
Robert Lewandowski wants it - and his Bayern colleagues want it for him.
May 15, 2021 could be a historic day in German football.
One still has to go in - better said: just one more.
Lewandowski is still one goal missing from the 40-goal record set by Gerd Müller in the early days of the Bundesliga in the last century.
A record set by the «Bomber of the Nation» in the 1971/72 season.
A record that was considered unbeatable - and which is now wobbling after 49 years.
In the meantime, hardly anyone would bet that Müller's 40 would not be at least equalized on the last two game days of this season.
It could be so far on Saturday (3.30 p.m. / Sky) when the champions Bayern are completely unencumbered by table constraints at SC Freiburg.
All for the 39-goal man Lewandowski, that is the Bayern motto in the Black Forest Stadium.
"There is still the story with Lewy," as offensive colleague Thomas Müller noted.
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Lewandowski's recipe for a record is: Don't get tense and just carry on as before.
“You have to keep calm and play for the whole team,” said the 32-year-old Pole.
In the quarantine training camp in Grassau, great attention is paid to the world footballer, including from coach Hansi Flick.
Lewandowski was even allowed to quit earlier during training.
Reason: load control.
Just no injury now.
And please no fifth yellow card, which would result in a suspension against Augsburg on the last day of the game.
"Robert has to be careful about that in Freiburg," warned Flick.
Everyone is excited, in Munich, in Germany, in Poland.
"I thought Gerd Müller's record, which he set before the Stone Age, would never be broken," said Karl-Heinz Rummenigge a week ago after the Munich 6-0 win against Borussia Mönchengladbach.
The Bayern boss has rethought after Lewandowski's three-pack that evening: “Robert is incredibly ambitious.
He is well on his way to breaking Gerd Müller's super scoring record. "
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Former Bayern legends are also excited about the historic hunt for 40.
And they boast the programmed new record holder.
"He has such a gigantic quality and on top of that a greed that I've only known from Gerd in five decades," said Müller's former teammate Paul Breitner in the FC Bayern club magazine.
The 69-year-old Breitner believes: "If he could, Gerd would sit in the stands today and click his tongue every time Lewandowski scores."
The dementia sufferer Müller (75) unfortunately does not get the hype about his record and the possible successor.
For the former Bayern striker Mario Gomez, Lewandowski is "the most complete striker in the world".
The 35-year-old describes the Lewandowski phenomenon as follows: “We strikers always want to shoot at goal.
That's just how we were born.
For us there is no better feeling than scoring a goal on the pitch. "
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The former Munich Champions League winner Giovane Elber (48) is impressed by the repertoire of the Bayern goalgetters of the present: "There are no really typical Lewandowski goals - because he can simply do everything!"
Lewandowski has shown it 39 times this season.
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