Fifty-one goals in 43 matches in competitions this season, and counting. That really should say it all for Robert Lewandowski of Bayern Munich in the Ballon d’Or race, but France Football has decided they will not select a recipient for the honor this year due to the long pause in the game caused by the pandemic. of coronavirus. In a statement, they claimed that the pandemic made it impossible to reach a fair trial. “How can the incomparable be compared?” they say.
Of course, France’s Ligue 1 season was cut short due to the pandemic. Nonetheless, Ligue 1 crowned the champions of Paris Saint-Germain, but France Football would presumably argue that Kylian Mbappé was unfairly unable to complete his national season. France Football adds: “We did not want to put an indelible asterisk on the list of winners to the effect that the ‘trophy (was) won in exceptional circumstances due to the Covid-19 health crisis.”
They continue to affirm, in all seriousness, that “Protecting the credibility and legitimacy of such an award also means ensuring its irreproachable in time.” Because clearly no one, much less any player from French Bayern who won a treble in 2013, has questioned the legitimacy of the criteria by which the Ballon d’Or has been awarded.
This time, Lewandowski was in the race with Lionel Messi of Barcelona and Cristiano Ronaldo of Juventus after securing another domestic double with Bayern and helping them advance to the knockout stages of the Champions League.
The Polish international scored the best of 34 league goals in the Bundesliga, a maximum of 6 goals in DFB-Pokal, and currently has the highest number of 11 goals in the Champions League. He is literally the top scorer in all the competitions he participates in this season, and no other in the top five leagues in Europe has scored more than 50 goals this season.
It’s not that it technically matters, either, but this is the best individual scoring season he’s had in his career, and it turns out to be a scoring record that turns out to be more prolific than anyone else in world football right now. This is also the fifth consecutive season in which Lewandowski has scored at least 40 goals in all competitions. But you are the judge of that.
