Robert Lewandowski is about to do a Romário. What is a Romario? Scoring 30 goals for Barcelona in his first season as a blaugrana. The Brazilian kept his word in 1993-94.
With his double at the MartÃnez Valero, Lewandowski has 27 goals in 34 games. He has a minimum of 14 left to play and, for the moment, he is averaging a goal every 106 minutes since he landed at the Camp Nou.
The list is very small. But much. Since Romário’s arrival, only Ronaldo and his 47 goals (34 in the League) have been able to reach and surpass that rubicon. Eto’o was one goal away in 2004-05. Not even Neymar (15) or Luis Suárez (25), who later did reach three dozen, came close in their debut season. Before Romário, the impact of the signing of Hansi Krankl (36) in 1978-79 stands out.
On August 5, unlike Baixinho, the Pole did not promise any number of goals for his first season. But the more than 50,000 fans who attended the presentation knew that Barça was signing a scorer who had smashed Bayern records. And the nose for the new nine has catapulted Xavi’s Barcelona to an unstoppable lead in their attempt to reconquer the League.
His regularity and reliability were affected, but Lewandowski has returned on time after failing to see the goal in the entire month of March, in which, in addition, he missed two games (the Cup classic at the Bernabéu and against Valencia). In February he did not lavish too much and did not score from the penalty at Old Trafford.
In fact, the World Cup break affected the forward quite a bit, who celebrated 18 goals in the first three months before traveling to Qatar. But in Elx (0-4) he opened the scoring again and scored with the third in the second half.
In total, for the Pole, who has scored in all five competitions this season, it was his seventh double, which adds to the hat-trick that he endorsed Viktoria Pilsen in the Champions League. At 34 years old, he has barely needed adaptation.
The winner of the last two Golden Boots will try to add his first Pichichi scorer, despite competition from Benzema, from whom he scores three goals. It would be the twentieth time that Barça has claimed the trophy, eight of them thanks to Messi.
The recovery of Lewandowski’s success comes at an opportune moment, since on Wednesday Barcelona aspires to qualify for the Cup final, against Madrid. The merit of the Pole is that his goals are worth titles.
