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Robert Lewandowski is the first player to score 4 goals in a Champions League semifinal when he netted four times for Borussia Dortmund against Real Madrid in the first leg of Dortmund's 4-1 win in the 2012-13 last-four.
The prolific marksman this season became the first player after Lionel Messi to register multiple quadruples in the Champions League when he scored 4 at Crvena Zvezda in a devastating 16 minute blitz to register the fastest quadruple in the competition. In the Bundesliga, Lewandowski is the most prolific non-German scorer and one of only 5 players to score over 200 goals in the German top-flight.
The winner of 7 Bundesliga titles (twice with Borussia Dortmund and 5 with Bayern Munich), Lewandowski scored in a record 11 consecutive games since the start of the 2019-20 season to end the calendar year as the top-scorer for club and country. The first player this season to score 30 goals in all competitions, Lewandowski has the following milestones to look forward to in 2020:
# 1: Most goals in a Bundesliga season
The first player to score in each of the 11 games since the start of a Bundesliga season and the first to tally 16 goals after 11 games, Robert Lewandowski scored 3 in his next 6 to lead the race for the 2019-20 Torjagaekanone.
At one point, Lewandowski was well inside the pace of matching Gerd Muller's 1971-72 season haul of 40 hauls which is the most scored in a Bundesliga season. The prolific Pole is still on course to equal or surpass the legendary Muller's 48-year record by producing a strong finish in the second half of the season.
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# 2: Most goals in a Champions League season
One of two players to score on each of the first 5 Matchdays of the UEFA 2019-20 Champions League, the other being Erling-Braut Haaland, Robert Lewandowski's 10 goals in 5 games (2 goals per game) keeps him on course to break Cristiano Ronaldo's record (17) of most goals in a Champions League season. If the Polish striker maintains his prolific goal rate in the second half of the season, and provided Bayern are to progress deep in this season's competition, Lewandowski could equal or go past Ronaldo's record.
# 3: Win a 5th Torjägerkanone
At 19 goals in 17 Bundesliga games, Lewandowski is 1 clear of closest challenger Timo Werner of Leipzig. Considering his consistent prolific domestic run in the last few seasons, few would bet against Lewandowski winning a 5th Torjägerkanone at the end of the 2019-20 season.
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