Can Robert Lewandowski finally be the man to break Gerd Muller’s Bundesliga goals record?

Robert Lewandowski has scored 13 goals in nine Bundesliga matches and is on course to make history… so can he finally be the man to break Gerd Muller’s outrageous 47-year record of 40 in a single top-flight campaign?

  • Robert Lewandowski has been sensational for Bayern Munich so far this season
  • He has scored in every single match he has played across every competition
  • The Pole’s performances mean he is on track to break Gerd Muller’s record
  • The German legend has the most goals (40) in a single Bundesliga campaign 

Robert Lewandowski is currently unstoppable.

Nine Bundesliga teams have tried and failed to keep him out so far this season with the striker finding the back of the net in every single league appearance he has made this season.

It is not just Germany’s teams who are struggling though. The 31-year-old has also scored in every competitive game in the Champions League and German Cup this season, making a total of 19 goals in 15 games. 

Robert Lewandowski has been sensational for Bayern Munich this season, scoring 19 goals

Lewandowski is now on track to surpass Gerd Muller's Bundesliga goal record this season

Lewandowski is now on track to surpass Gerd Muller’s Bundesliga goal record this season

Lewandowski reached new ground last week by becoming the first Bundesliga player to score in the first nine games of a season, beating the previous best of eight set by Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.

However, his phenomenal form has left him eyeing one of the very few scoring records he is yet to overcome – the most goals scored in a single Bundesliga season.

The great Gerd Muller possesses that honour after he plundered 40 goals in 1971-72 and nobody has come close since. Aubameyang hit 31 in 2016-17 and Lewandowski’s best attempt so far was 30 in 2015-16 but the Pole is now threatening to go past 40.

When Muller set that ridiculous tally, also playing for Bayern, he had just three goals after his first nine matches of the season. Thirty-seven of the remaining tally arrived from his 10th match of the season onward.

His magnificent displays that campaign saw him score four hat-tricks, one four-goal haul and one five-goal haul as Bayern lifted the Bundesliga title. 

Muller scored 40 goals in 1971-72 - a season that ended with him lifting the Bundesliga title

Muller scored 40 goals in 1971-72 – a season that ended with him lifting the Bundesliga title

The Polish striker has scored in every single match he is played in across every competition

The Polish striker has scored in every single match he is played in across every competition

MULLER IN THE 1971-72 BUNDESLIGA 

Games: 34

Goal: 40

Assists: 17 

Muller also missed three penalties, so you can imagine how hard the task of beating him really is.

But Lewandowski is firmly on pace to do exactly that. At present he is averaging 1.44 goals per game after nine matches. 

If that rate continues he will finish the campaign with a staggering 49 league goals, not only beating Muller’s record but crushing it.

When asked about Muller’s record after Bayern’s win over Paderborn on September 28, the Pole said: ‘It’s too early. It’s great to be scoring, and I hope I can keep it up. Then we’ll see.’

Lewandowski is still a long way off overtaking Muller as the top goalscorer in Bundesliga history but for now he’ll just settle for reaching that 41-goal mark by the end of this season.

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