Robert Lewandowski is in the form of his life at the moment. The 29-year-old Pole who began 2017- 2018 season winning the German Super Cup with Bayern Munich Cup against Borussia Dortmund , finished the season as the Bundesliga’s top goalscorer with 29 goals. The prolific goal poacher also finished the season with 41 goals in 48 matches in all competitions and won himself Bundesliga’s top goalscorer award for the third time.
Last season also saw the Polish overtake Rainer Olhauser in the club’s all-time list with 66 Bundesliga goals for Bayern. Olhauser terrified opposition defences throughout the 1960s, and that Lewandowski has only taken two-and-a-half seasons to attain the landmark prompted club CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge to say that the 29-year-old belonged “in the same category as Gerd Müller.” His hat-trick in Bayern’s 8-0 demolition of Hamburg, with which he broke Rainer Olhauser’s record, also earned him the title of highest-scoring foreign player in the club’s history.
Speaking with bundesliga.com after the HSV game on his thoughts on being compared with Gerd Müller, Lewandowski said: “Comparisons with players who played 20 or 30 years ago are difficult. I’m glad when I hear I’m on a par with Gerd Müller or other great Bayern strikers, but I write my own history and I want to show something new and do something that others haven’t done yet.”
On the heels of a record-breaking feat with Bayern Munich, Robert Lewandowski is expected replicate his goal scoring form in Russia. Poland go into the World Cup as one of the group H favourites and their hopes will rest on their star striker who scored 16 of his country’s 28 goals in qualifying. With a record of 53 goals in 94 international matches for Poland, Lewi will no doubt be a major threat to World Cup defences.