It was as if they had all seen the Yeti. With a mixture of astonishment and awe, she whispered his name, and you seemed to be sure: Yes, the appearance was real, they had to take you got, but you were been close enough to authenticity to confirm. As Lewandowski came into the game, it is changing, said one of the Heidenheimer, and the next one said, Yes, well, this Lewandowski, have not can stop stop.

“With his substitutions at the break, Niko went all in,” said Heath home Trainer Frank Schmidt after the yetihaft unreal 4:5 in the Cup quarter-final with Bayern. You have felt “immediately that more quality is on the square”.

1:2, it to break against the perky second division, but then the Yeti came into the game. A clever header template to Müller: 2:2. A smarter path to Miller’s template, the executing including: 3:2. And then, five minutes before the end, this Penalty to 5:4, quite relaxed, transformed, even though this match was seen brushed on riot. But Lewandowski was bigger than this game. He has only played 45 minutes, but they have passed, to the man of the Evening to ascend. Three things you can say.

first of all: For Lewandowski, it is very okay to be a man of the Evening.

Secondly, It is, but it’s sorta his Job.

Thirdly, It was only against Heidenheim.

Lewandowski, 30, manages to be both a controversial and a non-controversial figure. Not controversial is that he is a very big, very complete Bundesliga striker, whose name is in the murmur against players with a mixture of astonishment and awe. Controversial is, if he is so good, how he sees himself sometimes: if he is the world footballer that will be obsolete in the relevant Rankings probably only due to errors in the computational Software of Messi and Ronaldo.

League of legends

in fact, you know, the still not so exactly: Is Lewandowski a striker from the Format Marco van Basten, has not only influenced, therefore, no world Cup or European championship, because he rushes for a big Nation? Or he is only a half van Basten, because he, for example, would not be forbidden to decide for his club Bayern Munich in the Champions League?

Today, Lewandowski could be at least a little bit historically. 199 League goals, he fired, missing him, yet, in the two-hundreds-circle venture, the four League of legends is reserved: to the unreached, unreachable Gerd Müller; the robust, technically strong case, backed down-the inventor, Klaus Fischer, who would also be in the year 2019 a super striker; the wickedly fast Jupp Heynckes could be in a game and then probably Jupp Heynckes would be trained; and the refined Manni Manfred castle Mueller, at the age getting younger and younger and sometimes from gaps appeared, in the Gap were not even aware of.

It would be a punch line, an oblique, if Lewandowski would shoot the historic goal of all things, for Borussia Dortmund ; against that Club, repeated his qualities as First looked and him in 2010 from Lech Poznan in the Bundesliga . Wherein, First of all, these qualities had looks for Lewandowski.

As Lewandowski in the second Polish League played, whispered the former Polish national team striker Cezary Kucharski, that he, the then 19-year-old Lewandowski, have the potential to be one of the best strikers in the world, if not the best. Lewandowski believed him, Kucharski was his Advisor, and together they developed two life themes: Lewandowski wanted to be as footballer always better. And he should eventually be so good that he gets a contract at Real Madrid.

The life of the subject Real

The one he succeeded: He can do everything kind of well, headers, tap-ins, goals with left, goals right, he can on the wing to Dodge, he can Bicycle kick or scissors kick. The second life topic, however, the contract at Real, remained unfulfilled.

Maybe his is world class but not world-class enough – like any good striker Lewandowski is fixed very on target, but maybe it is fixed, sometimes a bit too much on your own goal; on goal, he shoots himself and not the guy next to me.

So the big striker and coach Jupp Heynckes last season, has registered that his striker Lewandowski has not pulled the Bayern in the Champions League semi-final (against Real) so right, that he was neither robust as Klaus Fischer quickly as Jupp Heynckes still refined as Manni castle müller – though he may be all of the. This is now become a way of life, even if unplanned, In the really big Games, the big striker Lewandowski was often just a rumor.

the striker wanted to leave the League always, just now taking in the history of this League. 21 goals, he would have overtaken Heynckes, he would be third in the eternal rank list, and a truly historical figure.

(Süddeutsche Zeitung)

Created: 06.04.2019, 14:10 PM