LEWANDOWSKI EQUALS HISTORIC RECORD !
Picture : Lewandowski 2021 - Muller 1972 : 40 Goals each !
LEWANDOWSKI EQUALS THE 49 YEARS OLD RECORD !
Robert Lewandowski by opening the scoring for Bayern Munich against Freiburg today with his 40th goal , equals a long-standing Bundesliga goals record set by his 28th game of the season 2020/21 ! One match next Saturday in München against Augsburg can allow him to beat definitively Gerd Muller’s record (40 goals in the season 1971/72) !
The wife of Gerd Muller says the former Bayern Munich legend would be happy to see Robert Lewandowski equal his 49-year-old Bundesliga goal record with the Poland striker just one short. Lewandowski is now on 40 league goals this season — equal to Muller's record of 40 scored in the 1971/72 Bundesliga season. Gerd Muller, 75, is currently in poor health. During his stellar career, Muller scored a total of 365 goals in 427 Bundesliga games, but has been in a care home since November 2015. "Gerd would be happy for him.He would be the first to congratulate him. » said Uschi Muller.
Muller, nicknamed 'The Bomber', scored his 40 goals in 34 games during an incredible season in which he claimed four Bundesliga hat-tricks, as well as scoring four goals in an 11-1 mauling of Borussia Dortmund and five goals in a 7-0 drubbing of Oberhausen.
Lewandowski's tally of 40 goals is all the more remarkable as he has only played 28 of Bayern's 33 league games so far this season. Lewandowski, voted FIFA's, UEFA’s and IFFHS’s World Best male Player of 2020, is one of the world's top strikers having scored 276 goals in 349 Bundesliga matches for Bayern and former club Dortmund.
| Gerd MULLER | Robert LEWANDOWSKI | |
| Total Matches FC BAYERN | 605 | 328 |
| Total Goals FC BAYERN | 563 | 293 |
| Rapport | 0,93 | 0,89 |
| Bundesliga Matches FC BAYERN | 427 | 218 |
| Bundesliga Goals FC BAYERN | 365 | 202 |
| Rapport | 0,85 | 0,92 |
| International matches FC BAYERN | 74 | 68 |
| International Goals FC BAYERN | 65 | 56 |
| Rapport | 0,87 | 0,82 |
| National Teams Matches | 62 | 118 |
| National team Goals | 68 | 66 |
| Rapport | 1,09 | 0,55 |
| Total Top level Club career matches | 685 | 597 |
| Total Top level Club career Goals | 603 | 437 |
| Rapport | 0,88 | 0,73 |