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Bundesliga bows to Robert Lewandowski! But Jogi Löw destroys any illusion

2021-05-16T14:37:07.385Z


At 3:54 p.m. the time had come: Robert Lewandowski scored his 40th goal of the season in Freiburg. Then almost the entire Bundesliga bowed to the world footballer.


At 3:54 p.m. the time had come: Robert Lewandowski scored his 40th goal of the season in Freiburg.

Then almost the entire Bundesliga bowed to the world footballer.

Munich - The days before the FC Bayern game at SC Freiburg were almost like a countdown.

The fact that the game had less to offer in the table played a secondary role.

Because in the end, this encounter on this 33rd matchday was only about one man: Robert Lewandowski.

With 39 goals in his luggage, the world footballer traveled to Breisgau and many FCB fans asked themselves not if, but when the Pole would at least equalize Gerd Müller's record.

At 3:54 p.m. the time had come.

When referee Florian Badstubner pointed to the penalty spot with the help of the VAR after Lukas Kübler fouled Thomas Müller, everyone knew what hours had struck.

Lewandowski put the ball on the spot, loaded SCF keeper Jan Flekken and, as so often in this season, scored the 1-0 for the record champions.

This time it wasn't a normal goal - it was his 40th goal of the season.

And this historic goal was celebrated by the world footballer with a special gesture before his teammates stood in line and applauded the 32-year-old.

FC Bayern: Robert Lewandowski draws level with Gerd Müller - "Has set a monument"

Lewandowski himself was to blame for the fact that it didn't get 41 or even 42 hits in the end.

The attacker had enough chances in a quite respectable game against brave Freiburg.

It almost seemed as if he was too awestruck to leave Gerd Müller behind once and for all.

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Almost ten minutes before the end he would have had to push the ball over the line completely free-standing after a template from Kingsley Coman 30 centimeters in front of the goal.

But a rare technical error ensured that Lewandowski played the ball into Flekken's arms instead of into the goal.

If he had wanted it that way, he probably wouldn't have been able to do it.

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So be it.

In the end, Lewandowski was rightly celebrated, after all, he had broken a 49-year-old record.

“It's a great honor.

For me, but also for the modern history of the Bundesliga in Germany, ”he told the Pole about the game on

Sky

.

The people in charge at FC Bayern were logically full of praise and congratulated their striker on this historic brand.

Video: Lewy equalizes Müller's goal record - "Never believed it"

President Herbert Hainer said, “FC Bayern can be immensely proud that football fans all over the world associate such extraordinary strikers with our club forever.” Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, who once played with Gerd Müller, also drew his hat to Lewy. “Seven years ago we brought him to Bayern on a free transfer, and he became one of the most valuable players in our club's history,” the FCB boss is quoted on the club's website: “I played with Gerd Müller and I know that Robert is him Treat your day with all my heart. Both are strikers who stand out in the history of football. "

Rummenigge's successor Oliver Kahn sees Lewandowski “on a par with Gerd Müller, one of the greatest of all time.” Lewandowski “set a monument for himself and the entire team today with this incredible performance.” Hasan Salihamidzic would have wished, “Gerd would be in the today Been stadium.

I think he would have been happy for Robert, "said the sports director of the record champions, while Lothar Matthäus from the

Sky

studio congratulated:" If he earned, he worked.

Congratulations on this record and the 40th goal. "

FC Bayern: Bundesliga bows to Robert Lewandowski!

Löw destroys any illusion

Even Joachim Löw was impressed and congratulated the Bayern striker.

"It is impressive to score such a number of goals", the national coach told

Sport1

: "Today it is even more difficult than it used to be".

However, Löw destroyed all illusions of the FCB fans on a record for eternity, should Lewy increase his goal account next weekend in the game against FC Augsburg.

“Gerd Müller was unique in Germany, but every record is broken at some point.

At some point someone will come who is even better, "said Löw:" It is the same with all records.

Even if Lewandowski scores 41 goals, this record may also be broken at some point.

But to even come close to 40 goals in the Bundesliga is outstanding. "

But maybe Lewy will stay with the 40 goals out of respect for Gerd Müller. Then he would at least have fulfilled the wish of Müller's wife Uschi - and that would have something unique again.

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Source: merkur

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