Robert Lewandowski raced towards his 100th Champions League goal. The 36-year-old Polish striker, who arrived in Belgrade with 97 goals, had chances against Red Star (2-5) to reach the milestone in his award-winning career, but he had to settle for an opportunistic ‘killer’ double That leaves him 99 out of 124 games. The centenary has been saved for the Barça-Brest matchday 5 to be played on Tuesday 26-N (9 pm) at the Estadi Olímpic de Montjuïc.
Only Cristiano Ronaldo (140) and Leo Messi (129) surpassed their scoring records in the history of the Champions League, although Barça’s average ‘9’ (0.79) was slightly better. He also scored the club’s 700th in the Champions League.
Furthermore, with his double at ‘Little Maracaná’, a stadium where he has already scored a poker against Red Star with Flick’s Bayern 2019-20 (0-6), Lewandowski leads the Champions League Pichichi with five goals in four games, both. additions Harry Kane (Bayern), Viktor Gyökeres (Sporting) and his partner Raphinha. In the League he has 14 for a total of 19 in 16 official matches, crack figures.
The importance of his goals for the selected moments is also worth highlighting. When Barça were playing at their worst in Belgrade after Silas’ 1-1 (27′) for Red Star, they showed their opportunism to make it 1-2 before half time (43′). And in the 53rd minute, already in the second half, he scored 1-3 to put things on track.
There are two goals in the first touch. At first, Raphinha He fired a low shot from the edge of the area to the base of the post and the rebound fell at the foot of the Lewandowskiwho pushed the ball into the net. And in the second half, moments after missing a called goal, he retaliated by planting his thigh at the far post after a gift from Koundé.
In the 78th minute, with 1-5, the Pole, not quite willing to change because of his impressive goal-scoring voracity, left his place with a smile on Pau Víctor to the joy of flipwho always tried to give him a few minutes’ rest, sometimes without success.
Source: La Verdad
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