La Liga: Lewandowski gives Barca narrow win over Bilbao
Robert Lewandowski scored the winning goal as FC Barcelona won 2-1 at home over Athletic Club Bilbao on Saturday night.
Robert Lewandowski scored the winning goal as FC Barcelona won 2-1 at home over Athletic Club Bilbao on Saturday night.
Former Bayern striker Robert Lewandowski then had a great chance to break the deadlock, but the unmarked Pole pulled over the target with 18 minutes gone.
FC Barcelona got their Champions League off to a thundering start with a 5-1 rout of the Viktoria Plzen. And three of those goals were the work of Lewandowski, who has now scored 89 goals in the competition, the first three of those for Barca amounting to his sixth UCL hat-trick.
Lewandowski will return to familiar surroundings after recently moving to Camp Nou, as Barcelona and Bayern Munich, who between them have won 11 Champions League titles, were drawn in a difficult Group C with Inter.
Aleksander Isak wasted no time in equalising for the hosts, who forced Marc Andre Ter Stegen into some fine saves and saw a second-half goal ruled out for offside, reports DPA.
Media reports speak of Ajax striker Sebastien Haller, Stuttgart forward Sasa Kalajdzic and Liverpool's Sadio Mane as Bayern targets.
While the club's national and international competitors are happily announcing noteworthy transfers for the next season, the reigning German champions seem stuck in a fatal state of uncertainty.
Sources close to the player have said in recent weeks that Lewandowski has been in talks with the 'Bavarians' but they have not reached an agreement, Xinhua reports.
Several other notable athletes were given the prestigious Laureus award during a digital ceremony hosted from Seville, are 2021 US Open women's singles tennis champion Emma Raducanu, who received the Laureus 'World Breakthrough of the Year Award', while the Laureus 'World Team of the Year' was awarded to the Italian national football team who won the Euro 2020 title last year.
Both the goal scoring machines will be playing against each other for the seventh time on Saturday which could well prove to be their 'last dance' in the German league as well. as per reports by Xinhua.
