Robert Lewandowski is a goalscoring genius, but he may never beat a record set by two Wolfsburg strikers 12 years ago
By Jason Humphreys for Englische Woche
Now that league titles have become a mandatory requirement at Bayern Munich, Robert Lewandowski has turned his attention to
BREAKING records. He recently became the first player to score more than 20 goals in the first half of a Bundesliga season and he is now third on the league’s all-time list of scorers, only a handful of goals away from Klaus Fischer in second place. Whether Lewandowski sticks around long enough to surpass Gerd Müller as the most prolific striker in Bundesliga history remains to be seen, but he has his sights set on breaking Müller’s record of 40 league goals in a season, set back in 1971-72. Lewandowski came close last season, with 34 goals, and he has already scored 24 this time around.
Not only is Müller the league’s most prolific goalscorer but, for a long time, he was also one half of its highest-scoring strike partnership. That record was broken 12 years ago – not by Lewandowski, or even a Bayern Munich player, but by a Bosnian and a Brazilian: Edin Džeko and Edinaldo Batista Libânio, better known as Grafite, who enjoyed a magical season together at Wolfsburg.