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Stars swoon over 5-goal Lewandowski
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ROBERT Lewandowski’s sensational five-goal haul in just nine minutes for Bayern Munich sent Bundesliga records tumbling and had Germany’s sports stars swooning yesterday.
German Cup holder Wolfsburg had led 1-0 at half-time at Munich’s Allianz Arena on Tuesday when Lewandowski came on to change the course of the game with his record-breaking rapid-fire goals. His first arrived on 51 minutes, just six minutes after he had come on, and he needed only a breathtaking eight minutes, 59 seconds to score all five goals.
He set the record for the fastest five goals scored by one player in Bundesliga history and the impact of his performance was still being felt the following morning on social media.
“The man from my sleepless night has just arrived in the dressing room. Chapeau,” tweeted Lewandowski’s Bayern teammate Thomas Mueller at Bayern training next to a picture of the smiling pair.
Defender Jerome Boateng even learnt Lewandowski’s language to express his amazement. “Naprawde? Gratulacja! (Really? Congratulations!) I’ve learnt Polish after that performance,” wrote the center-back.
Lewandoski’s former Borussia Dortmund teammate Mat Hummels, who also played in the 4-1 Champions League semifinal win over Real Madrid in April 2013 when the striker scored four goals, was just as incredulous. “Hahahhahahahah — I’ve never seen anything like that in my life,” tweeted Hummels.
Former England striker and TV pundit Gary Lineker simply wrote “Utterly ridiculous!” next to a picture of the Bayern-Wolfsburg scoresheet and ex-Norway international Jan Aage Fjortoft, who played in the Bundesliga, tweeted: “That’s a miracle.”
Lewandowski’s haul caught the attention of Germany’s NBA star Dirk Nowitzki, who supports Bayern: “5 of them in 10 minutes??????”
The result, Munich’s sixth straight league win, put Bayern top of the table. Wolfsburg, which finished second last season, went ahead through a first-half Daniel Caligiuri goal, but the second 45 minutes were all Lewandowski in a clinical display of striking.
Three of his goals were from point-blank range, but the second was a pin-point accurate long-range drive from outside the area. He saved the best for last with a brilliant acrobatic effort to make it five and could have easily finished with six with the Wolfsburg defence in tatters.
“I have no idea how quick my hat-trick was, maybe five minutes?” he told German Sky on the sidelines before being told the official time. “Okay, it was a bit quicker than that.”
Bayern coach Pep Guardiola held his head in disbelief on the sidelines. “I’ve never experienced anything like that in my life! Five goals in nine minutes! Wow!” said Guardiola. “I may never see anything like that again, either.”
Lewandowski said his goal had simply been to score when he came on. “I just wanted to shoot and shoot again. At 1-0 down, I had to score at least two goals,” he added.
“It’s been an incredible evening. What a great feeling.”
In Milan, Italy, Mario Balotelli scored the first goal of his second spell at AC Milan as the Serie A giant held on for a hard-fought 3-2 win at Udinese on Tuesday.
In his first start for the Rossoneri since moving back to the club on loan from Liverpool at the start of this season — having left Milan a year earlier to sign a permanent deal with the Premier League outfit — the controversial Italy international forward needed just five minutes to open his account.
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