Robert Lewandowski has gained The Best. The Polish footballer, who plays for Bayern Munich, has received the award for the second time in his career seeing off Lionel Messi and Mohamed Salah within the very last shortlist.
33 year-old Lewandowski netted forty eight goals in all competitions in the 2020-21 season at Bayern and 41 of those have been in the Bundesliga. That broke the previous report set through the overdue Gerd 'Torpedo' Muller. Lewandowski has persisted his sensational goalscoring form this season as he has were given 25 desires in his 19 appearances for the German side up to now.
His forty one dreams inside the Bundesliga final season had been thirteen beforehand of nearest challenger Andre Silva of Eintracht Frankfurt. He also got seven assists within the competition. As nicely as winning the Bundesliga, Lewandowski lifted the FIFA Club World Cup after beating Tigres 1-0 in the final and gained the German Super Cup after beating Dortmund 3-1 away from domestic.
As nicely as shining for his membership, Lewandowski has had some exquisite performances for his united states this year. He were given a brace and an help inside the recent World Cup qualifier over Andorra and he did the equal in opposition to San Marino in every other World Cup qualifiying game. The Poles are within the qualifying play-offs in which they may take on Russia. At the Euros, Lewandowski additionally got a brace as opposed to Sweden and a aim versus Spain.
Unlike the Ballon D'Or, which judges performances over a calendar year, The Best looks at performances over a season, in this case the 2020-21 campaign. An "intternational jury" of reporters, country wide crew coaches and captains as well as supporters, all get the hazard to have their say.
Lewandowski's win means he's identical to Cristiano Ronaldo in terms of usual The Best victories at the same time as it is a setback for Messi who has now long gone years with out triumphing it.
