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  1. Maradona37

    9 - Robert Lewandowski

    Yes...but some people say he's as good as or better than guys like R9, Puskas, Pele (if you call him a CF), Muller, Van Basten, Romario...which is clearly absolute bollocks.
  2. Maradona37

    9 - Robert Lewandowski

    Btw I am not hating on Lewa. I acknowledge he's one of the best strikers of his generation, even the last 30 years. But I think he gets an easy ride for some of his failures, and that fanboys like Temptation take a top player like him and go completely overboard about him. There's people out...
  3. Maradona37

    Bundesliga

    That's what I mean - they were big clubs and are now feeders for Bayern. Bayern always ruled that league but nowhere near as pronounced as now. As you say, it isn't even like it's a smaller league ruined post Bosman. It's a big country with the largest economy in Europe. They can support more...
  4. Maradona37

    9 - Robert Lewandowski

    Fair enough. Thanks for the debate.
  5. Maradona37

    9 - Robert Lewandowski

    No that's not true. It isn't just Real Madrid fans. Maybe I have spent too much time laughing at clueless modern internet fans, but they all seem obsessed with the CL no matter who they support.
  6. Maradona37

    9 - Robert Lewandowski

    I know they are. But my point is that most fans (admittedly clueless, internet fans) see the CL as the biggest thing in club football by far. In their eyes it's good to win La Liga if you're Barca or Real, but much much better to not win it and win the CL instead. I don't necessarily agree.
  7. Maradona37

    9 - Robert Lewandowski

    Most fans at least judge absolutely everything by it. It's always about how many CLs a team wins. It's given far more prestige than winning any league in Europe, with the exception of the PL. And that's only because there's so many EPL fanboys.
  8. Maradona37

    9 - Robert Lewandowski

    I like serghei but he cannot see beyond stats, often out of context.
  9. Maradona37

    9 - Robert Lewandowski

    The issue with that is that the CL is now the holy grail, and pre 1992 (not just for Barca, but all clubs) it wasn't treated as the pinnacle of club football. It was also much harder to qualify for pre CL era. You have to factor into account the mentality of the CL being the be all and end all...
  10. Maradona37

    9 - Robert Lewandowski

    The bar is always set low where Lewandowski is concerned, to be fair. Like Cristiano Ronaldo, people praise him when he does the bare minimum.
  11. Maradona37

    9 - Robert Lewandowski

    Which is why it's laughable when people imply this clown should have won the 2021 BD over him. Goes to show how unfairly popular he is. Anyone who thinks Robert Lewandowski should ever win a football award over Lionel Messi - or that Messi somehow 'robbed him' - should immediately cease watching...
  12. Maradona37

    9 - Robert Lewandowski

    True, that's a skill. I just take issue with people calling them clinical finishers. They're not - they just have a knack of getting many chances. Messi on the other hand IS clinical. The end result is the same but he's much more efficient.
  13. Maradona37

    9 - Robert Lewandowski

    Yeah they were, I am being pedantic implying he should score all four. My point is it's evidence of him being an erratic finisher that he scores the two difficult ones and misses the easier ones.
  14. Maradona37

    9 - Robert Lewandowski

    Never denied that. I complimented him at the time for it. The point is he's an inconsistent finisher. Like Haaland and Ronaldo. They score loads of goals because they get loads of chances. Messi is the best finisher of the 21st century. This is backed by statistical evidence. And obviously, in...
  15. Maradona37

    9 - Robert Lewandowski

    He missed two sitters vs Madrid after that in the same game. He gets loads of chances.
  16. Maradona37

    9 - Robert Lewandowski

    Are you joking? He can hardly run and his first touch and hold up play are abysmal. Says a lot more about the dearth in quality of contemporary strikers than anything about him aged 37.
  17. Maradona37

    9 - Robert Lewandowski

    I wouldn't even put him in your top 5 players of last season. Maybe not even top 7.
  18. Maradona37

    9 - Robert Lewandowski

    So often players who aren't that great get exaggerated stats. We see it with Bruno Fernandes at Man United too. It's often strength of team, or style of play, or everything going through the player, that accounts for stuff like that.
  19. Maradona37

    9 - Robert Lewandowski

    You are like most football fans - cannot see beyond stats. He was woeful in a lot of games. And clearly Barca's system and exaggerated attacking potential inflated his stats. Raphinha's too. It's a lot less black and white than you make it look.
  20. Maradona37

    9 - Robert Lewandowski

    That was one tie over a decade ago, and he's come nowhere close to that since. He scored 40 goals because of Flick's system - I watched you a lot last season and he had loads of bad games - he's the type of footballers whose stats are much greater than his performances. He also missed a lot of...

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