Barcelona’s Polish striker Robert Lewandowski scored the aim that opened the scoring towards French facet Brest on Tuesday, in a match that regularly grew to become sophisticated at residence for the Catalan workforce, which didn’t have its star participant, Lamine Yamal. In doing so, he joined a choose group of strikers by scoring within the Champions League.
Lewandowski transformed a penalty that was dedicated by Brest goalkeeper Marco Bizot, in a transfer that even regarded harmless, to open the scoring, simply 10 minutes into the sport.
With this aim, Lewandowski reached 100 targets scored within the continental event, becoming a member of a choose group that features Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi. Ronaldo scored 140 targets within the event, in his profession with Sporting, Manchester United, Actual Madrid and Juventus, and Lionel Messi, who scored 129 targets with Barcelona and PSG.
However that is not all, Lewandowski does have the most effective scoring share among the many three strikers, along with his century scored in 124 video games, with a mean of 0.80 targets per recreation, higher than the 0.79 that Messi has along with his complete scored in 163 video games and the 0.75 of Cristiano, who achieved it in 187 video games.
Neither Cristiano nor Messi will play within the Champions League once more of their careers, whereas Lewandowski can proceed to attain, no less than this season with the Catalan workforce, although he’s already a veteran.
One other piece of fine information for Lewandowski is that behind him, there’s a vital distinction with the forwards trying to attain the century of targets: Thomas Muller, who has 54 targets, and tied with 49 targets are Kylian Mbappe and Mohamed Salah. Karim Benzema can be within the competitors, with 90 targets, however he’s additionally unlikely to play within the Champions League once more.
Lewandowski has scored within the Champions League with Borussia Dortmund (17 targets in 28 video games), Bayern Munich (69 in 78 alternatives) and Barcelona (14 targets in 19 video games). As well as, this season, he has 21 targets in 19 video games, remaining as the highest scorer in LaLiga (15 targets) and one other six within the Champions League.
High 10 scorers within the Champions League
- Cristiano Ronaldo 140
- Lionel Messi 129
- Robert Lewandowski 100
- Karim Benzema 90
- Raul Gonzalez 71
- Ruud van Nistelrooy 60
- Andriy Shevchenko 59
- Thomas Muller 54
- Thierry Henry 51
- Filippo Inzaghi 50
