FC Barcelona: Robert Lewandowski warns Kylian Mbappé and the competition

It is not Hansi Flick who should sulk his pleasure at having kept Robert Lewandowski this summer, nor Raphinha, incidentally. Since August, we had seen the Pole hit once, twice, but not yet three times in the same match. This Sunday, it was Alavés and their goalkeeper Antonio Sivera who paid the price for the first time this season (3-0). If he had been able to limit the influence of Mbappé, Bellingham, Vinicius or even Rodrygo despite his team’s defeat against Real Madrid two weeks ago (3-2), the Spanish goalkeeper was just powerless this afternoon .

It’s difficult to hold it against him for the three goals he conceded in the space of 25 minutes, as the Pole showed such chronic efficiency. We knew how destructive his header was, and he only needed seven minutes to remind us of it on a Raphinha cross this afternoon. The second goal is mainly due to the merit of the Brazilian, who did everything in defense of Alavés before serving Lewandowski, well placed as often to add to the score. As for the last one, he is a model of his kind. After a serve from Eric Garcia at the entrance to the area, the former Bayern player rewarded us with a supersonic sequence to finish with a cross strike.

It’s the best according to Flick

Today, even at 36 years old, it would be necessary to scrape the bottom of the drawer to compose a TOP 5 of European number nines without slipping the name of Lewandowski into it. And that seemed to be the opinion of Hansi Flick, who was still full of praise for him after the meeting: “Robert knows very well what he has to do in front of the cage, he is the best for me, he is incredible. I’m very happy with him, and we can see that he’s in perfect shape at the moment.”expressed on DAZN the German technician, already accustomed to seeing the Pole torment the goalkeepers during their joint visit to Bayern Munich. “I already knew Robert at Bayern. He’s incredible. For me, when he gets in the box, he’s just the best.”he concluded.

As is often the case, the player did not try to claim victory. He humbly explained that he was trying to do his best: “I try to score goals, and my teammates also gave me good passes, it should be noted. From the first minute, we wanted to score, and after scoring three in the first half, we played comfortably in the second half. The most important thing now is rest, recovery and everyone’s return after the international break.» A truce that Lewy can approach calmly. Barça is leader of La Liga and he is top scorer in La Liga with 10 goals, more than Mbappé, Vinicius and Bellingham combined. In the 5 major European championships, only Erling Haaland has scored as many as him at the start of the season, which puts his service record a little more precisely…