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Poland’s Lewandowski breaks Bundesliga score record

22.05.2021 19:00
Poland’s football star Robert Lewandowski has beaten German icon Gerd Müller’s all-time Bundesliga record of 40 goals in one season.
Robert Lewandowski of FC Bayern Muenchen scores their sides fifth goal, scoring his 41st league goal, breaking the record for the most goals scored in a Bundesliga season during the German Bundesliga soccer match between FC Bayern Muenchen and FC Augsburg at Allianz Arena in Munich, Germany, 22 May 2021.
Robert Lewandowski of FC Bayern Muenchen scores their sides fifth goal, scoring his 41st league goal, breaking the record for the most goals scored in a Bundesliga season during the German Bundesliga soccer match between FC Bayern Muenchen and FC Augsburg at Allianz Arena in Munich, Germany, 22 May 2021.Photo: EPA/Alexander Hassenstein

In a Saturday match, Lewandowski’s team, Bayern Munich, beat Augsburg 5-2 with Lewandowski scoring his side’ fifth in the 90th minute of the game.

The Polish goal machine has thus scored 41 goals in the German Bundesliga this season, breaking the legendary record of Müller from the 1971/1972 campaign.

Lewandowski in December last year won FIFA’s 2020 Best Men’s Player award, beating Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo and Argentina’s Lionel Messi.

The Poland captain was also named Player of the Year at the Globe Soccer Awards in Dubai at the end of 2020.

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Source: PAP