But then Gareth Southgate’s Three Lions need to face the maximum deadly goalscorer in European football: Poland’s Robert Lewandowski.
The striker comes into this destroy withinside the shape of his career, having scored a super first-1/2 of hat-trick for 10-guy Bayern Munich in Saturday’s 4-zero win over Stuttgart. Here are 9 stats to demonstrate simply how right he’s been.
Last season, Lewandowski scored fifty five dreams in all competitions in Bayern’s treble win. They can’t win every other treble this season, however he’s on route to interrupt his very own previous-satisfactory file with forty two dreams already.
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Since the flip of the yr, the striker has scored in 15 of 17 starts, together with every of his remaining 8. He’s scored 22 dreams in 18 appearances in 2021 so far, with thirteen in his remaining 8.
The Poland worldwide has already exceeded his career-satisfactory tally of 34 Bundesliga dreams from remaining season. Up to 35 already, he’s properly on route to conquer Gerd Muller’s mythical tally of forty dreams in the course of the 1971-seventy two season.
He wishes to attain six dreams withinside the remaining 8 video games to interrupt the close to 50-yr file
With 35 dreams, he’s 14 beforehand of Erling Haaland and Andre Silva withinside the Bundesliga pinnacle scorers listing this season.
It’s additionally 12 greater than every other gamers in Europe’s pinnacle 5 leagues – with acquainted foes Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo joint-2nd for the Golden Boot.
That’s a price of 1.five desires each ninety mins withinside the Bundesliga. Atalanta super-sub Luis Muriel fits that, having performed fewer than 1/2 of as many mins however in addition down the listing are Zlatan Ibrahimovic (1.1 desires according to ninety), Erling Haaland (1.1), Ronaldo (1.0), Kylian Mbappe (1.0) and Messi (0.9).
At the age of 32, there’s each hazard that the striker can capture Muller’s file of 365 general Bundesliga dreams. Three greater seasons at his modern-day charge could do it.
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