Robert Lewandowski is one of the most successful scorers in the League. Before the duel between FC Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund, the Polish striker talks about quality, pressure and big games.
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Lewandowski will still be better
Only four players have scored in the history of the Bundesliga more goals than Robert Lewandowski. During the Polish striker can reach the incredible record Gerd müller’s 365 hits, he needs just one more to be in the 200-goal club in the Top-Four scorers. It would be a remarkable achievement, which has reached Lewandowski also in considerably less Games than his predecessor, Klaus Fischer, Jupp Heynckes and Manfred castle Mueller.
In the current season, Lewandowski was able to extend his remarkable record: The 30-Year-old has already scored 19 goals. So he managed for the eighth Time in a row, at least 17 goals. Only in his first season at Borussia Dortmund, as he scored only eight goals, he came in the double-digit range. Good arguments when it comes to the question of who is the best number nine in the world.
Always better to be
Leave can instinct Lewandowski always on his goal: “An important skill for a striker, you simply must have in your DNA,” says Lewandowski, in an interview with DW, and warns against overconfidence: “If you think that you’re the Best in the world, then it is coming to an end. You always have to strive to be even better.”
Since Lewandowski in 2011, joined the League, only a few were better than the Pole In three of the past five seasons, he was top scorer in the Bundesliga. Just because he always wants to be better, even if he is already at the top: better running, better control of the ball with his weak foot, better head to the ball game.
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“When I look at the football of 20 or 30 years ago, he has grown,” says Lewandowski. “With football, it’s not just the Ball, but also about what you do in Training, in the gym, because people constantly want more and more.”
Lewandowski: “Two steps away”
More and more, and also Lewandowski would like to. This year – to the From in the Champions League – it means that the scorer cannon, the DFB Cup and the seventh of Bavaria championship in a row. Although Lewandowski has taken in the past few weeks, regularly, is the FC Bayern in front of the “classics” against Borussia Dortmund again in the role of the follower. Seven in-game days before the end of the season the top two clubs separated by only two points. So tight it was not for many years. The best prerequisites for an exciting game. And even after that still nothing is decided, believes Lewandowski.
“I’m not sure whether the winner is also automatically a master. I don’t believe it,” says Lewandowski, and admits: “Well, the winner takes a big step forward, but a step is not enough. We still have a lot of games until the end of the season, and I think the later masters have to make two steps to distinguish themselves.”
The Bavarians had in the course of the season, at times already a backlog of nine points on the Dortmunder. Then they managed the game to catch up and even overtake. After 1:1 in Freiburg in the last round they fell back behind the Borussia. The pressure is again on the FC Bayern.
Great Moments
It needs a big “Lewandowski-Moment”? The Polish striker had in his career, some, like this one: four goals for Dortmund against Real Madrid in the semi-final first leg of the Champions League season 2013. A fantastic evening and a Moment that tells him, like Lewandowski as a player has changed. Or the five-pack in just nine minutes against VfL Wolfsburg – the incredible performance.
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“I never thought that something like that can happen,” says Lewandowski today, on the memorable day in September 2015. “I didn’t realize that there were only nine minutes. I’ve got one shot, then the second and the third. Then the next one came, but I remember that I need to achieve even one goal more would have, because there was still a Chance. Normally, I would have had to do, but maybe someone wanted me to meet five times in nine minutes.”
Lewandowski is a great player?
It may also be instinct as a scorer, which makes him the little things and the Details, for example, one thing that is missing for him in Germany sometimes. “In our locker room, with many players from many different countries. You get to see how the culture in Italy, Spain, Brazil or Poland. You can see the difference. Such spontaneity is in Germany, but sometimes unimaginable. If a German is surprised, he often does not know how he should behave,” says Lewandowski. “It’s the difference between order that is sometimes too big, and spontaneity, which sometimes brings something Cool, a Chance to be creative.”
The Figures in the K. o.-duels against the big clubs languages in the last years often against Lewandowski
Lewandowski there is no lack of creativity. His goal against Freiburg was outstanding, however, the critics were then, especially with the chances he had. Also the Champions League against Liverpool brought old allegations back to the front: A murmur that the 30-Year-old is not a “great player”, because he was in the last seven Champions League eighth-final play had remained without the gate, and then hide if it is against great Teams.
“It’s all about the last season,” says Lewandowski, whose great role models used to be Thierry Henry and Alessandro De Piero. “Because I could not meet last season due to my injury in the quarter-finals and in the semi-finals because I’ve played for eight months with pain. But if you look at the previous season and the five seasons prior to that, I in each Half and each quarter-final will score at least one goal. This is the difference: people sometimes see only what happened yesterday, but not what happens in the long run.”
Favorite Opponents Borussia Dortmund
Lewandowski goal-record against BVB is good
Personally, Lewandowski is not taking these attacks: “I’ve experienced over so many years and a thicker skin develops, and it becomes thicker and thicker. I have learned to deal with it and live with it,” says Lewandowski. “Sometimes it hurts, but you have to deal with it.”
In recent years, large games”, in which it was all or nothing, in the Bundesliga it’s rarely”, is the dominance of Bayern. But this time voltage is in the duel of the Munich against Borussia Dortmund really in it. Particularly interesting is the game is the fact that Bayern have to win if they want to be for the seventh Time in a row champion. A long-not-seen-before pressure situation.
Robert Lewandowski hits and against Borussia Dortmund In the first leg, 3:2-victory of Borussia Dortmund, scored Lewandowski, both of Munich hit. Anyway: Since his move to Munich in the summer of 2014, the poles in nine Bundesliga was games already twelve times against his old club successful. It would therefore be of no surprise to anyone, if he would develop this strong balance sheet on Saturday.