The Polish striker, who has scored 11 goals in eight games so far, has averaged more goals per game for Barça than in his entire career
Barcelona already has the best Robert Lewandowski. The Polish striker has started his stage in the Barça team like a shot, and in just two months he has already established himself as the great figure of the culé project. His figures, with 11 goals in eight games with Barca, are the best of his entire sporting career. Never before, at Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund, or even Poland, had he achieved a scoring average such as he has achieved so far this year.
Eight matches. That’s the time Lewandowski took to dispel any lingering doubts surrounding his signing. Neither age – he is already 34 years old – nor the difficulty of taking on a new project have been able to cope with the gluttony of a legendary striker. The Polish striker has signed two months in which his impact on Xavi Hernández’s team has been total and he has even allowed himself the luxury of smashing all the scoring records he has achieved in his career.
And it’s that Lewandowski’s numbers are those of a player who, incredible as it may seem, is going through the best moment of his life. Between the League and the Champions League, he has scored 11 goals in eight games so far, meaning he has an average scorer of 1.38 goals per game. These numbers for now surpass those of the 2020-2021 season, when he scored 48 goals in 40 games (1.2) and the 55 goals in 47 games he left in the 2019-2020 season, which was his scoring ceiling to date and earned him his first The Best.
This start to the season is even more surprising compared to the other environmental changes for Lewandowski in the past. The Warsaw striker had his worst year at Borussia Dortmund on his debut in German football, scoring just nine goals in 43 games, and repeating sensations when he started at Bayern. Those 25 goals in the 2014-2015 campaign are the worst numbers for ‘Lewy’ in the past decade. It was the last time he got Earth grades.
Today, those numbers seem to fall short in light of what his process of adapting to the new Barca has been. Lewandowski sees the target with the usual ease, he is a natural leader and he has also managed to emphatically take on all the automatisms necessary to fit the culé model. It’s a round signing and Xavi no longer skimps on praise for his new striker. “It’s a blessing. He feels comfortable, adapts, he is aware of the responsibility he has had since coming here and he makes the difference,” the Catalan coach assured, knowing that little more could be asked of a player. who just landed.
Lewandowski was also a reference for Xavi’s model in the rival area. The new ‘9’ culé is the player, with 22 shots, who shoots the most in the whole competition, above Benzema’s 17 or Joselu’s 16. Of those shots, 36% end up in the opposing team’s nets, a very high percentage for a player which performs practically everything it picks up near the target. This effectiveness allowed the former Bayern player to become the Spanish league’s top scorer for Borja Iglesias, who has six goals, and began to look suspiciously at a Golden Boot for which Erling Haaland scored straight away with his spectacular 11 goals in seven games. .
Lewandowski’s stellar start as a culé also surpasses any other great striker in the Barça team’s history. No one supports their numbers. Romario had scored six goals at this point in the season, Samuel Eto’o had scored five and Zlatan Ibrahimovic added the same amount when he arrived to join Leo Messi, who, a year after his departure, has seen someone fill that immense void that the Argentinian left.
Source: La Verdad
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