Robert Lewandowski made his aggressive Barcelona debut on August 13 and he’s been on an absolute tear ever since, scoring objective after objective and recording some outstanding statistics.
Lewandowski arrived at Barca from Bayern Munich for a price of €45million in July 2022 after a considerably protracted saga.
The Polish centre-forward had been outstandingly prolific for Bayern, scoring at a charge of a couple of objective a recreation for 3 consecutive seasons. However in Might, he stated: “My period at Bayern is over. I don’t see any chance to proceed enjoying for this membership anymore.”
Bayern performed hardball for over a month, however Lewandowski ultimately acquired his want and Barca acquired their man.
Now, eight video games into his Barcelona profession, it might barely be going any higher for Lewandowski.
After the large Pole scored thrice within the Champions League recreation in opposition to Viktoria Plzen, his new supervisor Xavi stated: “I’m working out of reward for him.
“He’s scored a hat trick, however it’s not simply that. It’s how he performs and the way he makes the workforce play, discovering the third man, studying the area completely, urgent…
“I’m delighted. He has been a incredible signing. He offers us so many options in assault, he’s a pacesetter, a winner… a incredible, incredible signing.”
Following two extra objectives in Barcelona’s 3-0 win over Elche on Saturday, we’ve determined to spherical up 11 stats that present simply how sensible Lewandowski has been since arriving in Catalonia, courtesy of WhoScored, ESPN, Squawka and Invictos.
– Robert Lewandowski acquired off to a gradual begin. He failed to attain in a 0-0 draw with Rayo Vallecano and posted a WhoScored ranking of 6.41. Since then, he’s scored 11 objectives in eight video games in La Liga and the Champions League.
– Lewandowski has performed 629 minutes of soccer within the league and Champions League. Which means he’s averaging a objective each 57.2 minutes in all competitions.
– Along with these objectives, the Poland worldwide has notched two assists, so he’s averaging a direct objective contribution each 48.4 minutes. In the event you take stoppage time into consideration that’s just about one each half. Sheesh.
There is not any stopping Robert Lewandowski! 🔥
With a brace this afternoon for Barcelona, the Polish famous person now has 8 objectives in simply 6 LaLiga video games 🔵🔴 pic.twitter.com/cVCeDrrCVg
— Premier Sports activities (@PremierSportsTV) September 17, 2022
– Together with his objectives in opposition to Viktoria Plzen, Lewandowski turned the primary participant to bag hat-tricks for 3 completely different golf equipment within the Champions League (Borussia Dortmund, Bayern Munich and Barcelona).
– That recreation in opposition to Viktoria Plzen was the twenty first time Lewandowski has scored two or extra in a single Champions League recreation. Since Lewandowski made his Champions League debut in 2011-12, solely Cristiano Ronaldo (31) and Lionel Messi (26) have scored twice or extra in additional Champions League matches.
– Lewandowski has additionally now moved third on the all-time Champions League goalscorers listing on 86. You possibly can already guess who’s forward of him – Messi on 125, Ronaldo on 140.
– Whereas we’re as regards to Ronaldo, Lewandowski’s eight objectives in his first six La Liga matches examine fairly favourably to Ronaldo’s 5 objectives in his first league video games in Spain.
– Lewandowski has now scored twice in three completely different video games in La Liga. His most spectacular show was maybe in opposition to Cadiz, nonetheless. He got here off the bench with simply 33 minutes to go and managed one objective and two assists.
– Lewandowski is certainly one of solely 4 gamers from throughout Europe’s large 5 leagues to have scored 10 or extra in all competitions to date this season. The others are Neymar, Kylian Mbappe and Erling Haaland.
– Lewandowski has already scored together with his proper foot, left foot and head for Barcelona. He’s already scored one, two and three objectives in a recreation. And he’s already scored at residence and away from residence.
– The 33-year-old striker has been WhoScored’s statistical man of the match in 4 of his six La Liga video games to date.
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