This is Robert Lewandowski at his brilliant best. During Hansi Flick's era he becomes arguably the best striker in the world, inspired Bayern to a historic treble (second ever for the club) and establishing himself as European Golden Boot winner in 2020-2021 season. He was on course to become a Ballon d'Or Winner, but sadly missed out on the award due to the cancellation. In this period of two or three years, Lewandowski really was devastating, simply unplayable every time he stepped on to the pitch.
He was breaking record after record, setting a new standard of how many goals a striker should've score during the course of the season. He's close on breaking Cristiano Ronaldo's record in the Champions League, scoring 15 goals and became the competitions top goal scorer. In Bundesliga he maintains his standard, scoring 34 goals in 2019-2020 season, and 41 goals in 2020-2021 season, the later which breaking an all time highest goals scored in a single Bundesliga season, previously held by Gerd Muller, a record which was thought by many as "unbreakable".
Lewandowski really is a perfect striker in a structurally strong team. Played with expansive 4-2-3-1, Bayer under Hansi Flick emphasize great positional play, energy, speed, and discipline, pretty much similar to Guardiola's Barcelona. Lewandowski who has a very strong link up play was very beneficial to this system, as he was supported by the unorthodox Thomas Muller and two very fast wingers in Serge Gnabry and Kingsley Coman. Muller who's main strength is finding space and moving constantly often found himself exchanging positions with Lewandowski, making the marking from opposition's defense seems impossible to do. Both wingers was also constantly supporting Lewandowski by linking up and play great crosses. But despite a strong team, Lewandowski has to stepped up his game to make everything works together. And as a great striker, he showed growth and maturity under Hansi Flick which is imminent in this set.
Surprisingly this set is not much different than the previous one during Ancelotti era, the obvious difference is in his aerial abilities, which is massively improving, and consistency. Lewy was also improving massively in his physicality, during this era he seems so strong while holding up the ball or engaging in physical duel. During this era Lewy add a bit of clutch and decisiveness in his game, this was due to his much improved consistency. And for this reason, he scored a lot of important goals in the biggest stage vs great opponents (i.e. Chelsea & Barcelona). There's a slight caveat though as he's still a bit wasteful with his finishing, sometimes he just overdoing things in front of goal. Just imagine how many goals he would score had he got a better shooting accuracy. But apart from that Lewy is an embodiment of perfect "modern" striker, that should be talked about more as one of the all time great.
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