Robert Lewandowski | Bayern Munich

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Scored an excellent goal earlier:



And this was his first goal for Bayern Munich:



Lewandowski is a good dribbler, very good finisher, and excels at linking up play and holding the ball up. He also possesses one of the best first touches in the world (for a #9). I can see him continuing his excellent partnership with Götze and thriving under Guardiola's system.

Question for all (especially the Bayern Munich fans on here), how well do you think he'll integrate into the current Bayern Munich side?
 
A massive upgrade on Mandzukic, I think he'll do very well.
 
Lewandowski/Robben/Ribery with the likes of Muller and Gotze also around is verging on unfair.
 
Second match for him iirc and second goal. Fantastic one on top of that. I was a bit worried that he wouldn't settle in well in Pep's crazy system but he's doing well so far in, happy for him.
 
Can you even get odds on him being the bl top scorer this season? Injury permitting he is going to smash it this year and I dread to think how many bayern will score as besides the goals he will get I can see him setting up tons as well

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The way he kept the ball and held off the players was fantastic. What a neat little chip as well. Cannot wait for the season to start!
 
Bayern's team is just brilliant and Lewa is surely another upgrade. Let's see if they miss Kroos (which I doubt)
 
Could he rival Ronaldo and Messi for the golden boot?

35+ league goals....I'd say he has a shout
 
When it looked like Rooney was going to be sold this was the striker I hoped we would replace him with, great modern #9.
 
BigDunc9 said:
Yep, it's not like he's the most successful manager of the last 6 years playing that way.
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With Xavi, Iniesta and Messi all in their prime, yes.

Bayern got significantly worse after he took over, imo. With the likes of Ribery, Robben and Schweinsteiger, they ought to play like they did in 2012-2013. I think Van Gaal or Klopp would have done a lot better last season, if they were in charge of Bayern.
 
I don't want to turn this into another debate about Munich last season which has been done to death but Pep seems to be getting a lot of harsh criticism for not retaining the Champions League, which no manager has ever done.
 
Mad Winger said:
With Xavi, Iniesta and Messi all in their prime, yes.

Bayern got significantly worse after he took over, imo. With the likes of Ribery, Robben and Schweinsteiger, they ought to play like they did in 2012-2013. I think Van Gaal or Klopp would have done a lot better last season, if they were in charge of Bayern.
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Significantly worse and still comfortably won the domestic double.
 
Winrar said:
Significantly worse and still comfortably won the domestic double.
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Yeah, people seem to crucify him here for not retaining the CL, which is an incredibly difficult thing to do. He still had an excellent first season, and a top striker like Lewandowski is only going to make them better.
 
Winrar said:
Significantly worse and still comfortably won the domestic double.
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Quite easy when they have no one to compete with in the Bundesliga. But they did decline a bit under Pep particularly in the second half of the season.
 
NMF said:
Quite easy when they have no one to compete with in the Bundesliga. But they did decline a bit under Pep particularly in the second half of the season.
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Dortmund is still a better team than any English team, but clearly they are no competition despite being the only team that beat Real Madrid in a CL game last season.
 
Winrar said:
Significantly worse and still comfortably won the domestic double.
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He got utterly destroyed by the third best team in Spain and struggled for 150 minutes against the worst United team in at least a quarter of a century.

The Bundesliga has always been Bayern vs the currently best contender. With Dortmund constantly losing their best players, it was only a matter of time before Bayern would return to comfortably winning the league again.

In 2012-2013 they won the treble and beat a Dortmund side that still had Götze. That's significantly better. Now, I'm not saying that they should copy that incredible season. But it's quite obvious that Bayern's quality has dropped under Pep. They no longer have that quick, attacking edge. Tiki-taka is definitely the reason for this.
 
Balu said:
Dortmund is still a better team than any English team, but clearly they are no competition despite being the only team that beat Real Madrid in a CL game last season.
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Arguable. On paper Chelsea and City have better squads but Dortmund do have a better manager (yes I rate Klopp higher than Mourinho) and can get an extra 10% from his players.
 
Mad Winger said:
He got utterly destroyed by the third best team in Spain and struggled for 150 minutes against the worst United team in at least a quarter of a century.

The Bundesliga has always been Bayern vs the currently best contender. With Dortmund constantly losing their best players, it was only a matter of time before Bayern would return to comfortably winning the league again.

In 2012-2013 they won the treble and beat a Dortmund side that still had Götze. That's significantly worse. Now, I'm not sayinf that they should copy that incredible season. But it's quite obvious that Bayern's quality has dropped under Pep. They no longer have that quick, attacking edge. Tiki-taka is definitely the reason for this.
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But even then, that Dortmund side still has a considerable level of quality. It's a side that would be capable of winning the PL for example. Yeah, they're disadvantaged in that they continue to lose their best players, but that doesn't mean they're a poor side. They're still a very good team and winning the title ahead of them with relative ease isn't simple.

They didn't have as good a season, but not every side can continue to perform at a treble winning level every single year. No sides do it. Not one has managed it in the CL era.
 
Balu said:
'definitely' ? Yeah right :lol:
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Agreed. :lol:
I don't think people know what tiki-taka even is anymore. They see a team who prefer to play possessive based football and hope they fail to just chuck the lazy cliche that tiki-taka is dead and every good team must play counter attacking blistering football.
 
Munich absolutely destroyed City at the Etihad though and no premier league team can get near them when City play there.
 
Balu said:
'definitely' ? Yeah right :lol:
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What happened then? Bayern '13 would have absolutely destroyed Moyes' United, and they'd probably beat Real as well. At least not lose this horribly.

The team is the same(+ Götze and Thiago), but the coach is different, and so is the style. I'd like to blame the style of the new coach then.
 
MoneyMay said:
Scored an excellent goal earlier:



And this was his first goal for Bayern Munich:



Lewandowski is a good dribbler, very good finisher, and excels at linking up play and holding the ball up. He also possesses one of the best first touches in the world (for a #9). I can see him continuing his excellent partnership with Götze and thriving under Guardiola's system.

Question for all (especially the Bayern Munich fans on here), how well do you think he'll integrate into the current Bayern Munich side?
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Very well, he is in my opinion the most complete number 9 in the game right now.. above Falcao/Cavani who have never done it at the highest level, so to get him on a free is frankly criminal.

I think he'd have been the perfect foil for likes of Ronaldo/Bale at Madrid - so yep, he's going to be a star injury permitting.
 
NMF said:
Quite easy when they have no one to compete with in the Bundesliga. But they did decline a bit under Pep particularly in the second half of the season.
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I think Bayern would have won the Prem last year, too.
They got 90 points from 34 games in the Bundesliga. I don't think it unreasonable to suggest they could have gotten more than City's 86 points in 38 games. Sure, they wouldn't have won it with a 19 points gap but I think they were good enough to win the league over City.

That one game against Real (and a bit of a decline in the 2nd half of the season) is distorting the picture to an extend that Bayern's season is seen as a failure by a lot of people.

On topic again:
I think Lewandowski is good upgrade over Mandzukic. Better first touch, better passer, better finisher, just as good or slightly better at holding the ball.
He's a bit weaker in the air but that's really it.
Definitely a well rounded striker without any significant weaknesses.
 
Balu said:
Dortmund is still a better team than any English team, but clearly they are no competition despite being the only team that beat Real Madrid in a CL game last season.
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Nope. City and Chelsea would both finish ahead of them in a league, and be favourites in a match. Arsenal probably about equal with them.
 
I would of made Dourtmand favourites in 2 legged knock out tie in the Champions League against Chelsea and City personally. I think City would finish above them over a 38 game season though if that makes sense.
 
He'll shine at Bayern. As some have said, with him, Robben, Ribery, Muller etc. around they have an absurd level of talent + options. Huge upgrade over Mandzukic too.
 
Mad Winger said:
What happened then? Bayern '13 would have absolutely destroyed Moyes' United, and they'd probably beat Real as well. At least not lose this horribly.

The team is the same(+ Götze and Thiago), but the coach is different, and so is the style. I'd like to blame the style of the new coach then.
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Well, it's clear that you 'definitely' know what happened, so no need to explain anything. Just like you know that the manager we fired for being consistently out of the top 3 in the league and managing our worst CL campaign in the last 6 years would have easily done better than Guardiola last season. Even funnier that you try to downplay Real Madrid's quality, a team that won 13 out of 15 games in their CL campaign last season, by saying they were the 3rd best team in Spain, despite winning the cup and finishing only 3points behind the winning team in the league. But yes, those 3 points definitely make Real only the 3rd best team in Spain and I now fully agree with your definitely accurate analysis of our season last year.
 
Cheesy said:
They're still a very good team and winning the title ahead of them with relative ease isn't simple.
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Keep in mind that Dortmund only managed to get 71 points. Only once in the last 5 years has that type of score been enough to win the title. Even if they had won both games against Bayern, they'd still be 7 points behind them. So it's obvious that Dortmund hasn't done well enough against the other teams in the Bundesliga this year as well.
 
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