“He has scored three goals, but it’s not just that. You have to highlight how he works, how he appears”, Xavi Hernndez stressed about the Barcelona striker’s game
Robert Lewandowski make their big debut with Bara in the Champions League. At the end of the match against Viktoria Plzen, he went to the locker room with a ball under his arm. Tradition dictates that teammates sign it when a player achieves a hat trick. And that, precisely, is what the Pole achieved. The twenty-sixth of his career, the first as a Barça player. In the 34th minute, he extended the lead to 2-0 with a long shot, after The case will open the scoring. In the addition of the first part, dispel ghosts with the 3-1. And, already in the second half, he placed the 4-1 on the scoreboard with a shot from the edge after assistance from Ferran Torres.
Lewandowski’s scoring ability is beyond doubt. In addition to 26 hat tricks, the new Barça idol adds four pquers (one of them scored with Borussia Dortmund against Real Madrid in the first leg of the 2012-13 Champions League quarterfinals) and one repquer. The latter, he achieved it with Bayern, his previous club, against Wolfsburg, in the Bundesliga 2015-16. His team had gone into the break conceding a momentary 0-1 loss and the Pole, after the restart, turned the score around with five goals that fell between the 51st and 60th minutes of the match.
“I highlight Robert’s ambition. He never tires of scoring goals. He is a great player, a great person and we are very happy that he is with us”, praised him Sergio Robert as soon as the match ended in a very long-awaited mixed zone. For the first time since the outbreak of the pandemic, several players went out to attend to the media. The Barça midfielder was in charge of playing as a right-back for 45 minutes, until muscular discomfort in the left adductor forced him to go to the bench at half-time. However, he assured that the change was more of a precaution than anything else, although this Thursday the doctors will take a look at it again.
“Robert is insatiable. He exemplifies humility at work and pressure. I’m running out of praise. He’s scored three goals, but it’s not just that. You have to highlight how he works, how he appears. He’s a fantastic signing,” he stressed for his part Xavi Hernandez before the Movistar cameras as soon as the match ended. “We have generated many chances. Ousmane It has been very good and Robert has made the difference, but the goal conceded bothers us. In general, we have been superior, and that is where the result we have achieved comes from”, added the Barcelona coach, who also had words of praise for the French striker. “He is happy, he is enjoying himself. Ousmane is very important for the group and for me. He is a dagger on the wing, he is in a great moment of form and we have to take advantage of it”, sentenced the Barça coach.
The club, on the other hand, confirmed before the game the departure of Miralem Pjanic, who leaves the Barcelona discipline with the letter of freedom under his arm in exchange for forgiving the two years remaining on his contract. The Bosnian, in this case, has already signed for two seasons with the option of an additional one with Sharjah FC of the United Arab Emirates. On Tuesday night, in fact, he already traveled to Dubai to finalize the details of his commitment to his new club.
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