There is an empty hole in his house in Munich. He had it reserved for months, destined as it was to be the new Ballon d’Or. Even Messi, happy to embrace his seventh golden ball, addressed him urging France Football to repair the injustice caused by the absence of the trophy in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. “Hopefully Robert can give it to you and have it in your house because you were a fair winner,” the Argentine told Robert Lewandowski, the 33-year-old forward who has supported Bayern Munich for the past seven years.
In a perfect and choral team, he won the sextete with Flick (six titles out of six possible) thus equating himself to Guardiola’s Barça (2009), the Polish scorer was the final point. The surgical striker who has portrayed with extreme precision the work of a club that merges various routes of its coaches (Guardiola, Ancelotti, Heynckes, provisionally, Kovac, Flick and now Nagelsmann) to never abandon the essence of his philosophy.
Germans playing like Germans, adding a more creative touch since Guardiola’s triennium in Munich. They do not live in the area. They invade the area, capable of attacking from all flanks, with an offensive structure that is now becoming even more sophisticated. Nagelsmann.
The Pole has scored 16 goals in the Bundesliga; Barça has 23 in total in the League. He has ‘Lewa’ 9 in the Champions League; Barça, 2
With Lewandowski, life is much simpler. He scored a stratospheric 321 goals in 350 games with the Bavarian shirt against Dortmund last weekend. A real madness. But it is not what marks but what imposes and scares. In the current Champions League, Bayern is an offensive machine (19 goals in five games, with an average of almost four per game) and he already has nine. Barça, on the other hand, have only scored two goals in 450 minutes of European football (I hammered Dinamo at the Camp Nou and Ansu in Kiev at Dinamo).
The Catalans visit a team that works reliably this Wednesday, where the pieces are recognizable from the goalkeeper (Neuer is 35 years old and does not look like leaving his home) to the center forward (Lewandowski).
Monstrous figures
Such is the influence of Robert, as he was closely related to Messi, that his injury with Poland in the duel against Andorra (March) caused Bayern to lose the quarterfinals of the last Champions League with Paris SG (April).
In that product so oiled, the loss of Lewa had a devastating effect, preventing the then Flick team from defending the crown they won in Lisbon, precisely against the French team.
Eclipsed by the dictatorial dominance of soccer exhibited by Messi (seven Ballon d’Or) and Cristiano Ronaldo (five), the astuteness of the Pole has not found the individual award that rewards an enormous talent. To be chosen by France Football as the best scorer is too little for a player whose impact on the game goes far beyond what his monstrous figures attest.
He is 33 years old and a Ballon d’Or lost on the way due to the pandemic, as even Messi himself recognized
A meticulous and meticulous professional determined to extend his career beyond what his age indicates, the Pole has been able to triumph in a world dominated by the false nine, remaining as a vestige of what being a nine is and represents. A pure nine. It has received tactical influences from various schools.
He began by peering out at the elite with Klopp at Dortmund, where he had, as is the norm for the Pole, a big impact after a first year of immersion, with seven goals in 28 games. In his second season in Germany he already scored 22 goals in 34 Bundesliga games. “He was not just a father figure to me. As a coach, he was like the ‘bad teacher’. And I mean that in the best sense of the word,” admitted the forward. With Guardiola discovered the way to understand the game. “I learned a lot about tactics, my vision of football changed 100% with Guardiola,” the Pole revealed in an interview with the newspaper El País.
19 shots in the Champions League, 13 on goal, 9 goals
Then he understood the pragmatism of Ancelotti, capitalized on the simplicity of Flick and now explore the modern curiosity of Nagelsmann, the coach who wanted to sign Laporta for Barça when he became president.
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3️⃣2️⃣1️⃣ goals.𝑳𝑬𝒀𝑬𝑵𝑫𝑨 𝑽𝑰𝑽𝑰𝑬𝑵𝑻𝑬! 🙌#MiaSanLewy pic.twitter.com/u9TEPLXJcN
– FC Bayern Munich Español (@FCBayernES) December 4, 2021
But he had no money (25 million euros paid Bayern to Leipzig for him) or the sports project that could please a coach who enjoys an imposing forward, who already left his mark in the 0-3 first leg at the Camp Nou.
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He scored two goals for Koeman’s Barça, opening a practically perfect Champions League. Two at the Camp Nou, another two at Dinamo in Munich, one at Lisbon with Benfica, three at the Portuguese team, already at the Bavarian Allianz and the other at Dinamo, but in Kiev.
It is not just what you mark but how you get it right. He has made 19 shots in this Champions League. And 13 of them have gone to goal, finishing nine in goal. That is to say, 70% of success, reason why the best solution for the Barça would be, and without any doubt, that Nageslmann sneak Lewandowski into rotation policy on Wednesday.
Reference-www.elperiodico.com