Robert Lewandowski was delighted to hitch Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi as a Champions League centurion in Barcelona’s 3-0 win over Brest.
Lewandowski scored twice both aspect of a Dani Olmo strike as Barca ran out 3-0 victors, leapfrogging the French aspect within the standings as they moved to 12 factors from 5 video games.
The Poland worldwide is simply the third participant to attain 100 targets within the Champions League, after Ronaldo (140) and Messi (129).
The Barca striker, nonetheless, took the fewest photographs (451) to succeed in the milestone, with Messi needing 527 to get there, and Ronaldo 793.
Lewandowski netted 17 instances within the competitors for Borussia Dortmund, 69 instances for Bayern Munich and now 15 instances for the Blaugrana. In the meantime, 22 of his Champions League targets have come below Hansi Flick.
“I’m very pleased, very pleased. 101 targets within the Champions League is nice quantity,” Lewandowski instructed Movistar Plus after the sport.
“I didn’t suppose I might rating so many targets within the Champions League. To hitch Messi and Ronaldo… I suppose they’re good, proper?”
In all competitions this season, Lewandowski has now scored 22 targets in 19 appearances – 9 greater than some other LaLiga participant.
Certainly, he’s solely 4 targets shy of his last tally for final season (26 in 49 video games).
Barca, in the meantime, are the fifth staff to win 4 successive European Cup/Champions League matches by no less than three targets, after Paris Saint-Germain in 2017 (5), Bayern in 2020 and 2021 (4 on each events), Leeds United in 1969 (4) and Reims in 1958 (4).
Their victory got here on the again of a disappointing pair of leads to LaLiga, the place a 1-0 defeat to Actual Sociedad and a 2-2 draw with Celta Vigo have allowed Actual Madrid to chop their lead on the summit.
“We haven’t been taking part in effectively in LaLiga currently, however we’ve loads of video games to play but. We simply need to be affected person, we’ll rating extra targets in the long run,” Lewandowski added.
“We’re trying to win each recreation. If I can rating targets to assist the staff, all the higher. We have now to win each recreation till the top of the season.”
Head coach Flick heaped reward upon Lewandowski, additionally saying Barca deserved the three factors after racking up 19 photographs price 2.86 anticipated targets (xG) whereas limiting Brest to 2, price 0.07 xG.
“Lewandowski is nice, I’m delighted together with his targets. I feel Lewandowski is aware of he has to attain and he’s within the place to do it, however the essential factor is what the staff generates,” Flick mentioned.
“Clearly, he is aware of he has to attain and he performs for it, however what this staff does is simply fantastic.
“I’m very pleased. We deserved it, successful by three targets however we might have scored extra, however I’m pleased both means as a result of delivering a efficiency like this after Vigo is simply nice.”
