Barcelona is preparing to travel to Germany to face Bayern Munich next Wednesday in the final round of the Champions League group stage, in a decisive match for the Catalan club's future in the competition.
Barcelona will be forced to win to ensure qualification to the next round and avoid an early exit from the largest club competition in the world, and to rule out the possibility of moving to play in the European League.
Two days before the expected match at the Allianz Arena, the newspaper "Sport", which is close to the Catalan club, published a report in which it talked about the possible impact of the crowning of the former star of the team, Lionel Messi, with the Golden Ball on the outcome of the meeting against Bayern.
The newspaper highlighted fears that Lewandowski would seek revenge for his loss of the Golden Ball, by leading his team to victory over Barcelona and depriving him of qualification.
She explained that the last match of Bayern Munich against Borussia Dortmund in the German League witnessed cheers from the Dortmund fans, who tried to provoke the Polish striker.
The fans, who did not forgive the player's move from Dortmund to Munich in 2014, chanted Messi's name in different periods of the meeting, but Lewandowski responded by scoring a double and leading his team to a 3-2 victory.
Bayern Munich coach Julian Nagelsmann said that chanting Messi's name may have motivated Lewandowski to shine against Dortmund.
And the Spanish newspaper pointed out that Lewandowski will receive Barcelona while he is chasing a new record that he seeks to achieve before the end of this year, the best scorer in one year and recorded since 1973 in the name of the late top scorer Gerd Muller with 43 goals.
The Polish top scorer has so far scored 41 goals and has 4 games to play before the end of the year in order to surpass Muller's number.
It is noteworthy that Bayern Munich beat Barcelona in the first leg 3-0, and qualified for the next round earlier by being alone at the top of Group E with 15 points, while Barcelona occupies second place with 7 points, two points ahead of Benfica, who will host on the same day Ukrainian Dynamo Kiev The last place holder with one point.