Robert Lewandowski finally scores a World Cup goal for Poland

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Robert Lewandowski has scored 378 targets in 488 matches in his membership soccer profession. The Polish striker has performed for a number of the world’s largest groups together with Borussia Dortmund, Bayern Munich, and at the moment, Barcelona.

An extra 77 targets have been scored by Lewandowski on the worldwide degree. Lewandowski has (on the time of this writing) performed 136 instances for Poland.

But, till matchday No 2 of the 2022 FIFA World Cup finals event towards Saudi Arabia, Lewandowski had didn’t do one factor, and that was to attain within the largest world sporting occasion.

The striker discovered the again of the online within the 82nd minute to place the sport out of attain for Poland, as they gained 2-0 to maneuver atop Group C. The objective got here simply days after Lewandowski missed a penalty towards Mexico, which heaped extra strain onto his broad shoulders.

Lewandowski lastly bagged a World Cup objective in his fifth profession match within the event finals. The striker routinely lit up UEFA World Cup qualifying bagging 30 targets in 37 video games. Nonetheless, the finals event was beforehand a step too far.

In contrast to his contemporaries Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, Lewandowski hasn’t been blessed with giant numbers of video games on the FIFA World Cup.

Lewandowski is showing in his second World Cup finals event. His solely earlier World Cup look was in 2018 and it was a event to overlook.

Poland misplaced their two opening video games of the occasion to Senegal 2-1 and Colombia 3-0. Lewandowski made little influence within the three matches and followers have been left disenchanted. Poland lastly acquired a World Cup win on the ultimate group-stage matchday in 2018, defeating Japan 1-0.

Nonetheless, Lewandowski failed to attain both of Poland’s two targets within the competitors regardless of taking part in all 270 minutes for Poland within the 2018 World Cup.

Lewandowski’s reduction on Saturday towards Saudi Arabia was obvious. He fell to the bottom following the objective with teammates surrounding him. Feelings ran excessive because the objective lastly got here after 442 minutes of World Cup finals soccer.

The objective marked Lewandowski’s 77th on the worldwide stage. It equalled legendary Brazil participant Pele’s objective report on the worldwide degree.

Now that Lewandowski discovered the again of the online within the World Cup, followers will hope he can proceed scoring to ship Poland deep into the knockout levels.

On Wednesday, Lewandowski has the chance to point out the world he belongs on the identical stage as Ronaldo and Messi, as one of many best gamers of the fashionable period.

The world is speaking about Messi taking part in within the 2022 FIFA World Cup and presumably successful it. Lewandowski might destroy Messi’s get together with one other objective and lead Poland to victory.

Having waited for 5 video games to attain his first objective for Poland on the World Cup, it might not take Lewandowski for much longer to attain his second objective within the event.