Lewandowski sets new Champions League record
Lewandowski has completed a hat-trick within 23 minutes against FC RB Salzburg tonight
The goalscoring King has done it again: for a seventh successive season, Robert Lewandowski has hit the 40 goal mark to leave the watching world in awe of his supreme ability and longevity.
Not that it was ever in doubt, Bayern Munich's Prolific Pole needed to find the net just once more this season to reach his latest magnificent milestone, and the 33-year-old surpassed that with an incredible eleven-minute hat-trick against Salzburg in the UEFA Champions League, Round of 16-second leg.
23 - Robert Lewandowski has completed a hat-trick within 23 minutes against FC RB Salzburg tonight; the earliest treble ever scored by a player in UEFA Champions League history from the start of a match, overtaking Marco Simone for Milan v Rosenborg in 1996 (24 mins). Snappy. pic.twitter.com/aVNNmGdgVV
— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) March 8, 2022
The Best FIFA Men's Player for the past two years, Lewy has been banging in the goals for as long as Bundesliga fans can remember. Since season 2015/16, when the living Polish legend registered 42 in all competitions, he has either hit the magical 40 or surpassed it in subsequent seasons.
Last year brought a sensational haul of 48 goals in a single season, which included that new Bundesliga high of 41, which took Lewandowski past the division's previous record holder, Gerd Müller.
Looking to surpass those figures this time around, the Warsaw native has now registered 42 in 35 games with plenty of the season remaining yet in order to set an even higher standard to follow.
