Sometimes, it hides outside the area. At other times, it hides inside. And that his silhouette never goes unnoticed. He comes and goes all over the attack front, camouflaged in a costume whose color and appearance nobody knows. He plays another match.
He seems oblivious to what is going on around him. Don’t trust He is a liar. An impostor. Is named Robert Lewandowski and he had been in Germany for 10 years, leaving wonderful goals for Dortmund and then for Bayern Munich.
Goals of pure nine that hid, however, the true dimension of a striker who got into the Camp Nou in his pocket, while his wife, standing in the stands, happily sang the Barça anthem. Even before the night began when her husband decided to make his debut in Europe with an exhibition.
You don’t just have to look at his goals. He scored three, two from outside the area and one from inside the small, but what is transcendent is the even poetic ability he has to deceive defenses. In the first, which was 2-0 for Barça, he discovered the generosity of the then captain Sergi Roberto, transformed into a winger, interior, midfielder and even a winger.
A GPS on his right leg
He received the ball in the antechamber of the crescent and adjusted its coordinates, breaking the Viktoria defender with his body in such a way that when he turned around the Pole was already celebrating his first play. The ball, capricious, was guided by the GPS that Lewandowski has in his right leg.
And the Camp Nou already understood that this night, with almost 80,000 noisy and enthusiastic people (there were 77,411), was going to be really special. First due to the mischief of Dembélé, reborn due to Xavi’s stubbornness, also acclaimed by the ‘culé’, and later due to the efficiency, more typical of a machine than a human, of the Pole.
At 3-1, when the stadium freaked out a bit from Viktoria’s previous goal, the two connected. Ousmane looked like Puyol because of his defensive ferocity to pick up a ball that was not his, just before he served a precise cross to the far post. Who was there? The usual.
Deceiving, again, everyone, to be alone where there are manifestations of enemy defenses. And Lewi became invisible, again. Two shots on goal in the first 45 minutes, two goals. This is Robert, the guy who simplifies all the problems for you.
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But he didn’t have enough. He feels happy and comfortable in his role as leader of a team that is rebuilding itself around youngsters like Pedri or Ansu, who started for the first time since November 2021. To that forward that the Pole mentored shortly before he repeated, but in the other area, the definitive action to get his third goal in a night in which he took the ball home.
Although the most important thing is not his ability to define as if he were having a coffee on the Castelldefels promenade. Nor is his goals (he adds eight in five games, Barça, 16, that is, 50%), but rather he is the soul of the change. The face of culé happiness, the true lever of mutation. The invisible and undetectable nine, despite the fact that he has spent half his life giving away goals. Crouched, yes.