OneFootball
Lewis Ambrose¡25 October 2019
OneFootball
Lewis Ambrose¡25 October 2019
Nobody has ever scored more than 40 goals in a Bundesliga season and only Gerd MĂźller ever reached that amount.
Way back in 1971/72, MĂźller netted 40 times in 34 league appearances, a record that has since appeared completely unreachable in German football.
Until now.
Just eight games into the new season, Robert Lewandowski is already sitting on 12 Bundesliga goals for Bayern.
âI donât know how you can do it,â legendary striker Giovane Ălber told Bild.
âWithout him it would be so difficult for Bayern.â
And it really would. Lewandowskiâs 12 goals this season account for more than half of Bayernâs tally. The Pole has also scored more times than eight of the teams in Germanyâs top flight, including second-placed Wolfsburg.
Ălber knows a thing or two about scoring himself, finding the back of the net 139 times during a six-year stint in Bavaria. He didnât, though, think it would ever be possible to reach MĂźllerâs record of 40 goals in a single season.
âIâve always thought that nobody can break that record,â the Brazilian confessed.
âBut now I believe. Robert could do it!â
Thereâs a long way to go â 28 goals in the remaining 26 games â but if Lewandowski doesnât miss a minute keeps scoring at his current rate he will reach 40 striker with an incredible eight games to spare.
A goal on Saturday would already set one new record, with Lewandowski becoming the first player to ever score in each of the first nine games of a Bundesliga campaign.
Good luck to Union Berlin, who face Bayern at the Allianz Arena. Theyâll need it.