He sleeps on his left side so as not to tire his right leg • In the medical file you will not find muscle injuries • And his lifestyle is admirable every time again • After the Corona canceled the Golden Ball ceremony in which he was a leading candidate, Lewandowski has a chance to win the important title on the continent

• Lewandowski is celebrating. Do this 55 times this season

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Robert Lewandowski's lifestyle has long been an object of admiration in the world of sports in general and football in particular. The sturdy Pole exercises in the home gym beyond group training hours, sleeps on the left side so as not to tire the right leg, eats dessert before the main course to make order in the digestive tract and drinks after training beet juice with cinnamon and some hot pepper. On the recommendation of his dietitian wife he removed milk and chocolate from the menu, added oats, meat and fish, and he slides everything down his throat with a cup of maccha tea. Nutrition, sleep, training routine - the Pole's approach to each of these issues is different, strict and special, and according to the results in the field, it certainly works.

In his medical file you will not find muscle injuries, he never missed three games in a row, even though he broke his nose, crushed his ribs, snatched his shoulder and twisted his ankle. In terms of football, too, Lewandowski's lifestyle seems to work wonders for him. Two days ago he celebrated, 32 and tonight he will try to lock in the best season of his life with a first win in the Champions League.

These are the numbers of the Pole for this long season: 55 goals in 46 games in all competitions. 34 goals in the Bundesliga and the title of top scorer, six goals in the German Cup and the title of top scorer, and 15 goals in the Champions League, which he scored in just nine games, scoring at least one in each game. He is also the top scorer in the European factory, of course, and only two goals away from the peak of conquests for one season, which Cristiano Ronaldo holds.

Lewandowski and best friend // Photo: Reuters

These are monstrous numbers. Freaks. Superhuman. Ones that few manage to reach. With their help, Lewandowski entered the spheres that had been reserved in recent years for the Portuguese, for Leo Messi and once also for Luis Suarez, but it seems that he had to work harder and more correctly to reach these quantities. First of all because, he said, his starting point was different from theirs. "I had a lot of complications in the beginning," he once said, "like any Pole who came from Poland I thought I was less good than everyone else."

Also, he was not born with the set of skills they received, and things never came to him easily. So Lewandowski worked. non stop. He exercised, ate, drank and slept as it is written in the books and as the studies prove. He never left anything to chance. "He's the greatest professional I know," Pep Guardiola said of him in 2016, "always knows what to do to be in top shape."

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Lewandowski is training at home // Photo: From Instagram 

Smart, timed, conquering

This season Lewandowski has reached a new high. In 2016/17 he scored 43 goals in the most productive season of his career, and at present he already has .55 he is scoring non-stop, head and foot, and it is clearly not just the diet and good sleep that contributed to this. Unlike the great individuals of the game mentioned here earlier, the Bayern striker is much more dependent on the team around him. He does not produce out of nothing, and the offensive and team machine that Hansi Flick built does the Poles excellent service. The data show that Lewandowski of recent months is much more involved in the attacking game. It is more removed in the dangerous areas, as evidenced by the ten cooks in our balance.

Beyond that, his movement is so clever and timed that it makes him the address of dozens of balls of width and depth that his friends launch. Seven of them, no less, won this season to score him a goal in the Champions League. "You can't compare him to a player like Messi," Flick analyzed before the 8-2 draw with Barcelona in the quarter-finals. "Lewandowski is a world-class wide striker, he promises you expatriates." And really, it is hard to remember when the Pole did not conquer.

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The healthy lifestyle does wonders for the pioneer // Photo: From Instagram

Still, there are people who insist on being remembered and reminded. They claim that Bandowski has disappeared in the European decisive moments and that he does not get to big games. That in the only final in which he played in 2013 he did not score, when his team Dortmund lost to Bayern, and that since then he has not been able to help the Bavarians get through the semi-finals.

Facts are facts, you can not argue. Lewandowski has indeed not yet won the Champions League, but always when he was dismissed he thought how to come back better and stronger next time. "No one came close this season to what Lewandowski did," former player Friedholm Funkel claimed this week, and he is right. The Pole was the leading candidate to win the Golden Ball, but the ceremony was canceled because of the corona.

And maybe there's something symbolic here. Because the recognition of being the best player this year in the world Lewandowski should not get on stage with a suit. It's not him. At 32, in the peak form of his life, it deserves to happen on the pitch, in the Champions League final, after a good night’s sleep and a healthy meal.