Robert Lewandowski is making his comeback in Berlin, but there’s a lot hanging in the air. Hansi Flick wants to integrate him better and believes he has a record.
A sigh of relief at FC Bayern.
The Munich team scored a dull 2-0 away win at Union Berlin on Sunday evening, and thus returned without fault after the Corona break.
Robert Lewandowski was also in the game. The Pole missed match days 24 and 25 due to a fracture of the tibial edge on his left knee joint, but used the past few weeks to get himself back into position.
The Bayern striker scored his penalty goal against the Köpenickers to return 1-0 (40th), but otherwise the 31-year-old was not much to be seen at the Alte Försterei. Also because he didn’t get enough balls – and perhaps also because Thomas Müller played on the right side instead of being able to tear holes for him in the centre.
“If anyone can do it, it’s him”
“Lewy makes a very good impression. He’s in great shape. But we failed to involve him in the game more often today,” said Hansi Flick afterwards, demanding: “These are things we need to improve. But our offensive game in general.
The bare figures do not suggest any kind of weakness on the part of the Bavarians – quite the contrary: Lewandowski’s leading goal was already the 50th goal in the 16th Bundesliga match with Flick as FCB coach. Never before has a coach reached this mark so quickly.
Lewandowski himself is also still on the hunt for records, with 26 goals scored this season, and continues to lead the Bundesliga’s goalscoring charts. Leipzig striker Timo Werner follows in second place with 21 goals.
But the Polish international is not only chasing his fifth goal scorer. He is above all after the age-old record of Bayern legend Gerd Müller, who scored 40 goals in the 1971/72 season 48 years ago. Incidentally, the “Bomber of the Nation” secured the top scorer crown seven times in his Bundesliga career.
But does Lewandowski really break the 40-goal barrier?
“He still has eight matchdays to break the record. It won’t be easy, but he has the quality. If anyone can do it, he can,” Flick encourages him.
Lewandowski gives Flick a record
As early as November, CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge said: “I thought that this record by Gerd Müller was for eternity. But I think Robert is the first one who can really get into the border areas and who can manage to endanger the Gerd Müller record.”
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