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Robert Lewandowski Key to Bayern Munich, but They Have Depth to Cope Without Him
- Updated: August 30, 2016
Robert Lewandowski plundered a league-high 30 goals as Bayern won a record fourth consecutive Bundesliga title under Pep Guardiola last term, and with a hat-trick in the Bavarians’ opening-day 6-0 dismissal of Werder Bremen on Friday, the striker is off the mark in the new season already.
However, there remain lingering suspicions that the German champions would struggle to score so frequently if not for the prolific Pole, which was a sentiment that former Bayern defensive stalwart Thomas Berthold echoed recently.
“Carletto [new FCB coach Carlo Ancelotti] has one big problem—just one big striker,” the 1990 FIFA World Cup winner told German news outlet Deutsche Welle. “They don’t have top strikers on the bench to win the [UEFA] Champions League.”
Lewandowski certainly qualifies as a “big striker” in terms of his goal return. The 28-year-old’s haul against Bremen means that he has now scored 80 times in all competitions for Bayern since swapping Borussia Dortmund for the Allianz Arena in the summer of 2014—which equates to a goal every nine days, despite summer breaks, since his debut that August.
Friday nights seem to be his forte
