Robert Lewandowski created Champions League historical past in opposition to Borussia Dortmund to all-but seal Barcelona’s passage into the semi-finals.
The veteran striker scored twice in opposition to his former employers within the Blaugrana’s 4-0 win of their quarter-final first leg tie on the Estadi Olimpic Lluis Companys.
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Lewandowski introduced up his tenth and eleventh targets in Europe’s premier competitions this season within the forty eighth and 66th minute respectively.
In doing so, the 36-year-old has change into the primary individual to attain no less than ten targets in a single Champions League marketing campaign for 3 totally different golf equipment.
The Poland worldwide banged in ten targets for BVB within the 2012/13 season, earlier than hitting double digits in each the 2019/20 and 2021/22 seasons whereas at Bayern Munich.
And in what’s his third 12 months with Barca, he has lastly notched in no less than ten targets in Europe.
Not even Cristiano Ronaldo may handle that, having solely hit double digits at Actual Madrid regardless of additionally representing Manchester United and Juventus within the competitors.
Lewandowski is now on 40 strikes for the season in all competitions, and is only one objective shy of hitting a century for the Spanish facet.
Extremely, Lewandowski has scored extra targets in opposition to Dortmund than some other facet – a merciless capsule to swallow for followers who worshipped him throughout his four-year keep at Sign Iduna Park between 2010-2014.
The centre ahead, who received two Bundesliga titles underneath Jurgen Klopp’s tutelage, has now fired in 29 instances in opposition to Dortmund from 28 appearances.
Not eager to be overshadowed by Lewandowski, his teammate Raphinha additionally wrote himself into the document books.
The Brazilian winger broke the impasse within the twenty fifth minute, earlier than notching up two assists – for Lewandowski and Lamine Yamal.
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In doing so, he now boasts a whopping 19 objective involvements within the Champions League this time period.
With 12 targets, he’s the competitors’s main scorer, whereas no different participant has recorded greater than his seven assists.
The previous Leeds fan favorite has now equalled Lionel Messi’s Barcelona document of registering 19 objective involvements in a single Champions League season.
Messi created membership historical past within the 2011/12 marketing campaign the place he discovered the again of the online on 14 events, whereas laying on 5 targets for his teammates.
And Raphinha will likely be seeking to have the document for his personal when Barcelona face Dortmund in Germany subsequent week.
With Barcelona already having one foot within the last-four, he may additionally break the document in a doable semi-final tie in opposition to both Bayern or Inter Milan.