Bundesliga: machine Robert Lewandowski equals icon Gerd Müller
Polish Bayern Munich striker Robert Lewandowski scored his 40th goal of the 2020-2021 Bundesliga season on May 15, 2021. AP - Tom Weller
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Insatiable scorer, the Polish Robert Lewandowski scored his 40th goal of the Bundesliga season on Saturday May 15 with Bayern Munich during the match played in Freiburg (2-2).
The striker has thus equaled the record set 49 years ago by another illustrious Bavarian and goal hunter, Gerd Müller.
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It has been almost seven years since Robert Lewandowski donned the tunic of Bayern Munich, after shaking the defenses of Germany and Europe under the colors of Borussia Dortmund (2010-2014).
And almost nothing has changed: the Pole continues to panic the counters.
Or rather if, something has changed: like good wine, the attacker seems even stronger today, at 32, than before.
Many thought the scoring record in a Bundesliga season impossible to match or surpass.
In 1971-1972, Gerd Müller had scored a whopping 40 in the space of 34 matches.
Since that time, the man who came closest to it was ... Robert Lewandowski, with 34 achievements in 2019-2020.
The striker finally managed to join his elder on Saturday, May 15, 2021.
A feat accomplished in just 28 appearances
The Pole has been fielded at Freiburg in the 33rd and penultimate day of the Bundesliga season. And, in the 26th minute, the number 9 of the German champions did not hesitate to score his 40th goal of the season from the penalty spot (final score 2-2). His figures are crazy: one quadruple, four triplets, only four games where he has remained silent ...
Robert Lewandowski
has an impressive average of 1.42 goals per game this season in the league.
And yet, the record holder of selections and goals with Poland (118 caps, 66 goals) missed five matches and was absent for most of April due to injury.
He also sorely missed Bayern in the quarter-finals of the Champions League
against PSG
.
Domestically, Lewandowski was lethal like never before, with 40 goals scored in 28 matches.
On average, he finds the net every 59 minutes.
Best 9⃣ in the world.
RT if you agree.
# Lewy40 #FCBayern pic.twitter.com/ebVRqobhD0
- 🏆 MEISTER 🏆 (@FCBayern) May 15, 2021
Müller, at the end of its life, remains essential
As soon as his penalty was transformed in Freiburg, the new Bundesliga-season goal scorer did not fail to pay tribute to “Bomber” Müller. The words "
4ever Gerd
" ("
Gerd Forever
") were inscribed on a t-shirt he wore under his jersey. Certainly, Robert Lewandowski has been one of the best strikers in the world for several years; Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, another famous scorer and current Bayern president, has moreover described him several times as "
the best center-forward in the world
". But in Germany and Munich, Gerd Müller is a legend.
At 75, he is at the end of his life. Suffering from Alzheimer's disease, he lives in a specialized establishment. “
Gerd is slowly falling asleep. It's almost 24 hours a day in bed. He only has rare moments of awakening,
”his wife Uschi told the newspaper
Bild
last November. A few days ago, when Robert Lewandowski had just scored his 37th, 38th and 39th goals against Borussia Mönchengladbach, Uschi Müller confided that she "
would prefer that Gerd keep his record
". But she had also added that her husband "
does not know jealousy
" and that he would be "
the first to congratulate
" Robert Lewandowski.
Müller may well have to cede this record to the Pole for good.
Lewandowski has one game left on May 22 at home against Augsburg to become the only top scorer in the Bundesliga in a single season.
Greats of the game.
🤝 # Lewy40 # 4EverGerd pic.twitter.com/gS9d215zWc
- 🏆 MEISTER 🏆 (@FCBayern) May 15, 2021
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