"Lewandowski is celebrated like a god": Spain expert warns FC Bayern about Barcelona

Created: 09/13/2022, 12:40 p.m

By: Stefan Schmid

Spain expert Bernd Schuster takes a look at Lewandowski's time in Barcelona and only has words of praise for the exceptional striker.

Munich/Barcelona - In Spain, Bernd Schuster worked both as a player and as a coach for various clubs.

One can assume that the former German national player has a certain knowledge of the footballing events on the Iberian Peninsula.

Now he gives his interim verdict on Robert Lewandowski's debut in the Primera División, who switched from FC Bayern to Barcelona after a long back and forth, and talks about the Catalans' rediscovered self-image.

Lewandowski will "score 40 goals again this year"

Schuster, who himself has played 241 games for FC Barcelona, ​​is watching the Pole's successful early phase with the proud Catalans with great interest.

"After two extremely difficult years" for FC Barcelona, ​​they want to pick up on the golden days there again.

And indeed, the former tiki-taka club is well on the way there, thanks in part to Robert Lewandowski's already exceptional performances.

He will also want to show this when he meets his old teammates from FC Bayern in the Champions League.

In the first five league games, the striker has already scored six goals, two he put on.

There was also a hat-trick against Viktoria Pilsen at the start of the Champions League.

Achievements that do not come as a surprise to Schuster: “He will hit goals all his life and score 40 goals again this year,” the 1980 European champion told

with conviction.

The 62-year-old sees the fact that Lewandowski is no longer chasing goals for FC Bayern as an alternative.

“Robert really wanted a new motivation.

Bayern could have done somersaults there," he says, describing the dilemma FCB found themselves in.

Bernd Schuster and Robert Lewandowski in Barca jersey.

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Thanks to Lewandowski "the Champions League is already being dreamed of again"

Schuster scored 119 goals in the Spanish league, which Lewandowski will probably not quite be able to do due to his advanced age.

But what the Pole has already managed to do is bring the self-image of the highest goals back to Barcelona.

Because, according to Schuster, "there people are already dreaming of the Champions League (of the title, ed.) again." The clubless coach, alongside Lewandowski, sees another newcomer in Raphinha (who came from Leeds United for 58 million euros) as responsible for this ).

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When asked about Lewandowski's standing among Barça fans, Schuster then draws the greatest possible comparison: "Lewandowski is celebrated like a god," is the not very modest assessment.

But if anyone needs to know that, it's probably the "Blonde Engel" Bernd Schuster.

For Lewandowski's successor Sadio Mané, however, not everything is going smoothly at Bayern, which also brings Julian Nagelsmann an explanation.