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Robert Lewandowski’s penalty early in opposition to Brest at Montjuic final evening noticed him obtain a historic milestone as he grew to become solely the third participant within the historical past of the sport to the touch 100 targets within the UEFA Champions League.
After Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, the Polish striker is now simply the third particular person to sit down on that completed checklist and even scored his a hundred and first objective within the competitors later within the evening.
A breakdown of objective distribution
Of the 101 targets Lewandowski has scored within the competitors, 69 of them got here within the group levels of the occasion and the remaining 32 within the knockout levels.
Of that, 19 have been within the Spherical of 16, six within the quarterfinals and 7 within the semifinals. Notably, Lewandowski has by no means scored in a UEFA Champions League finale.
A year-by-year breakdown of his objective distribution additionally offers precious insights into the participant’s consistency over time.
Targets per 12 months
Robert Lewandowski now has 101 targets within the UEFA Champions League. (Picture by Alex Caparros/Getty Pictures)
Lewandowski scored as soon as within the competitors in 2011-12 however then burst to life in 2012-13 with 10 targets to his title.
Over the following 5 seasons, he saved up his consistency with 6, 6, 9, 8 and 5 targets to his title respectively.
In 2018-19, he scored 8 occasions earlier than racking up a surprising 15 in Bayern Munich’s UEFA Champions League profitable run in 2019-20. In his ultimate two seasons at Bayern Munich, he scored 5 and 13 occasions within the competitors respectively.
Lewy moved to Barcelona in 2022-23 when he scored 5 occasions within the European occasion after which once more netted 3 occasions final season. This season, he’s on hearth as soon as extra with 7 targets to his title in simply 5 video games to date.
Notably, the striker has scored 22 of his 101 targets beneath Hansi Flick and it’s clear that he thrives beneath the German tactician. Actually, he has not scored extra targets within the competitors beneath another supervisor with even his report beneath Jurgen Klopp being 17 targets.
