By converting in the 11th minute a penalty caused by an illegal charge by Brest goalkeeper Marco Bizot in the previous minute, Lewandowski became the third player in history to reach the 100-goal mark after the Argentinian Lionel Messi and the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo.
At 36 years old, the Polish center forward will certainly have difficulty joining in the competition Messi and his 129 goals and Cristiano Ronaldo and his 140 goals, but Lewandowski can console himself by ahead of the two superstars of world football in the ratio of goals scored by number of matches played (0.80 compared to 0.79 for Messi and 0.77 for Ronaldo).
At Barça since 2022, Lewandowski had previously scored 17 goals when he played for Borussia Dortmund from 2011 to 2014, including his first in C1 in 2011 against Olympiakos, then 69 others in the colors of Bayern Munich from 2014 to 2022.
Of his 100 goals scored, he only scored three by hitting from outside the penalty area, confirming his reputation as a goal hunter.
The Pole won a Champions League with Bayern in 2020 and played in a final with Borussia in 2013.
Par Le360 (with AFP)
11/26/2024 at 9:14 p.m.
