Barcelona striker Robert Lewandowski has been in completely red-hot kind this season, rediscovering his finest degree beneath the administration of Hansi Flick.
The 36-year-old Poland centre-forward has plundered 17 targets in 15 video games already this season, with 14 coming in La Liga and three extra within the UEFA Champions League.
Lewandowski near becoming a member of an elite membership with Ronaldo, Messi
As Barcelona get set to tackle Crvena Zvezda within the UEFA Champions League on Wednesday evening, Lewandowski is inching nearer to etching his identify within the historical past of the competitors.
With 97 targets within the high European competitors, the Barça striker is just three away from reaching the century mark which might place him on the desk of the best goalscorers within the competitors’s historical past: Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.
Solely the 2 of them have surpassed 100 targets within the Champions League. The Portuguese icon scored 140 targets within the competitors with Manchester United, Actual Madrid and Juventus, whereas the Argentine legend managed 129 between Barcelona and PSG.
Three targets away from a century within the UCL. (Photograph by Alex Caparros/Getty Photographs)
Lewandowski has wonderful numbers within the Champions League with the three groups he has performed on this competitors.
With Borussia Dortmund, he managed to attain 17 targets in 28 matches, at Bayern Munich, the place he gained the trophy beneath Flick, he netted 69 targets in 78 video games, and at Barcelona, he has already scored 11 targets in 17 matches.
It will not be far-fetched to suppose that Lewandowski might attain this magical determine towards Crvena Zvezda.
In spite of everything, Lewandowski had scored targets in 5 consecutive matches for Barcelona in current weeks – a brace towards Younger Boys, adopted by a hat-trick vs Alaves, earlier than netting two extra towards Sevilla, one towards Bayern Munich, and one other double towards Actual Madrid.
Lewandowski failed to search out the again of the online within the derby towards Espanyol, an anomaly contemplating his numbers this season, and can absolutely wish to treatment that towards Crvena Zvezda tomorrow.