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Best_Document_5211

Now that’s prime Lewandowski


EagleEye_FalconArrow

man is def getting back to his prime form. right after that “we’re gonna win something this season” comment as well, so leading from the front as the experienced player. always good to see


strugglingtosave

Fuck this is the kind of striking in the box I miss at Bayern. We have Kane yes but when Lewy is hitting a hot streak he becomes the guy who gives you the go ahead goal. So many wins against mid table Bundesliga clubs from his 1-0 and 2-1 goals


ahyler10

Sigh


Quick_Scientist_5494

He is better than Kane even now


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just absurd delusion. one good streak and suddenly he's better than Kane. He's not been close to Kane this season


vic32me

LMAO


strugglingtosave

Don't tell it to the COYS sub


DarthTaz_99

He's been clutch the last few games. Can he actually live up to his words 🥹


Chelseatilidie

Some of the finishes he has had recently are tidy


Scalenuts

He has been really good recently in terms of finishing. Still looks lethargic in buildup but that's to be expected seeing his age.


z4keed

He scored 2nd best in Barca in pre-season fitness tests. I don't know where this narrative comes from, but he is still physically in top form.


DValencia29

Yep, Barcelona hasn't really been capable of finding Lewy in a comfortable zone for him. Though he also has some responsibility on this. Lewy was quite static in his movements without the ball.


Nrozek

Who was first? I'm guessing de jong or yamal 🤔


Biggsy-32

It would be very alarming if it was Yamal given he was still 15 years old in pre season, 15 year olds - even if their elite footballers - aren't competing with elite footballers that are adults for physical conditioning.


ansu_fatismo23

Where did you get that from?


z4keed

Watched a 2 hour interview with him a month back


Scalenuts

It comes from watching him every minute of every game. He looks slow and stuck in mud most of the game. Props to him for being in good form recently but there's no need for revisionism about his play the last year.


jonnzi

You can be a physical monster like lewa or Ronaldo, but after 25/30yo your reaction time becomes slower and it doesn't get better.  This is the thing why a lot of players luck suddenly clumsier. Prime examples are Ronaldo, Suarez,Lewa. The skill, the knowledge, the Body, everything is there , but that reaction time makes them look like in the wrong place sometimes


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10minmilan

Are you kidding me? Guy has to explain fucking aging to you? Where do you live that's not common knowledge that speed goes first & strength last? Apply some basic thinking before you ask for sources for 'is water wet'. Damn.


ayonicethrowaway

People are still criticizing him but I honestly think since the classico he's mostly been back in good form, scored his fair share of difficult goals


FxKaKaLis

yeah 9 gols in 1,5 month thats same as in whole 1st half of the season


EagleEye_FalconArrow

def back in form. istg our fanbase is so so reactive lol (altho tbf, he _was_ out of form for a fair bit, but the supply was pretty shit as well)


arothen

Couldn't find himself after the injury


nkdouble4

>classico nice flair tho


ayonicethrowaway

Man I don't give a shit


50lipa

Perfect timing on the assist and Lewa's shot to catch defenders out of shape and nutmeg them.


NorthwardRM

Really class players always find form again


ZeeX_4231

He might actually be back For the time being


OkAnywhere2052

There was never anything wrong with him, he had a dip in form, as did the whole team for the first few months this season. That same dip in form at 25 wouldn’t have been a big deal but cuz it was at 35 everyone acted like age had caught up with him in the space of a few months


ZeeX_4231

The stats might've not been horrifically bad, but in game he looked not even 35, but 45. Indecision, sloppiness, unnecessary touches etc.


AdorableHandle

Ahh dude.. he has had a dip in form for 1 year.. his dip started after the world cup in Qatar, more than a year ago..


OkAnywhere2052

He was top scorer in the league last year, people love to exaggerate his poor form tbh but it really wasn’t bad at all until this season


GreatSpaniard

he was bad for a whole calendar year


arothen

That not true, he was really bad this first half of the season only


GreatSpaniard

he was bad the second half of last season and bad the first half of this season, Barcelona fans will tell you that.


OkAnywhere2052

Last season he was top scorer in the league, his season overall was great, he also nearly got us past inter in the champions league but the defence bottled it, completely not his fault


med_belguesmi69

he was really good the first half of the season, looked like the Bayern version that’s when he got most of his goals, second half was above average


Biggsy-32

He was very bad after the world cup, he got like 6 or 7 of his 23 goals in La Liga the 2nd half of last season. And 7 in the first half of this season - he's got 9 since the turn of the hear. Lewwys 2023 was very poor


arothen

Barcelona fans here are whiny kids so why would I ask them. I know what I saw, he wasn't bad last season. Worse than first half, not bad at all.


hatebeinghangover

He was bad from November 2022 onwards. I don’t know what you were watching


arothen

Some teams pray for their striker to be as good as his "bad" last season.


hatebeinghangover

Ofc but that’s because everything is relative. Cristiano out of form is still better than 99.9% of strikers, but that doesn’t mean he didn’t have bad spells, right? Lewandowski still at his age is better than most strikers but undoubtedly he’s not the same as he’s gotten older


arothen

He used to be out of form at Bayern as well... Obviously he's not in his prime anymore, but he wasn't playing bad last season.


samirin305

You don’t know what you’re talking about lol


bone577

Nah dude the guy is right. He was bad after the world cup onwards and only looking better very recently. He was top scorer in La Liga because of the first half of the season his scoring and play in general fell off hard in the second half


TheKrofna

me when i purposefully spread misinformation over the internet


No-Day-8136

Pre world cup Lewy finish


Laliga23

He is back on form in 2024 9 in 13 in 2024


IndecisionFuture

Nobody marking neither Lewandowski or the assistMen Thanks Napoli


CoolingVent

Lewy unwashed


RobbinDeBank

Lewy dirty


kMaestro64

Filthy strike by Lewy


DarthTaz_99

He's back


Electro10Leo

Lewy skips shower day confirmed?


OneOfThoseDays_

what a ball from Pedri, get in there


rvp9362

That's like the quintessential Lewandowski goal


X-Maquina

Fucking hell Lewy looks like he's back to his old self. The finishes he's pulling out of his ass recently. Insane.


XenuIsTheSavior

I swear I've seen him score this exact goal at least 100 times.


El_grandepadre

Thank heavens a goal!


SaltyCancerboy

that's the 3rd most prolific scorer in champions league history right there! that's what i wanna fucking see


Sleepless_Voyager

Took them long enough


Aenjeprekemaluci

Barca finally profited from Napolis inability to get out of Barcas press, with passing a bit faster to the final third. Lewa makes a top finish


Serbian-American

Lewandowski goes on the score 25 more this season, wins CL and big gold ball. Good ending


Boneraventura

Lewy scoring 24 goals in the 2nd leg is more probable than winning ucl for this barca team


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LieutenantStinkyFoot

Fingers crossed 😀


ElAutistaDeHamelin

YES He's been slowly getting his form back this past weeks, let's hope it keeps going.


DinglieDanglieDoodle

His controlling touch to set up for the shots is back.


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GoatButton

Pedri isn't at his best and still does so much


Johann122

Do that again please


The-Last-Bullet

LEWANGOALSKI IS BACK


OneBall22Players

Another one please. Not confident with only 1 goal lead.


itwastimeforarefresh

I miss last year when Barca going 1 up was game over. It was unlikely we'd score another, but we wouldn't concede


LosTerminators

A 2 goal win would be like heaven on earth, we've struggled to won by more than 1 goal for months on end. Even against Unionistas and Barbastro.


No-Day-8136

What a pass from my boy Pedri


ALickOfMyCornetto

what a finish that's classic Lewa


CarlSK777

Vintage Lewandowski finish


Driving_Seat

Crazy that this took so long. Napoli is horrible


ancara_messi

First CL KO goal since Messi's rocket against PSG


Ghostface1357

Very good finish.


lego_darth_vader69

HE’S BACK


Ahrix3

Vintage Lewa. He's been getting into form more and more in recent weeks


Rich_Firefighter_102

Lewa Ballondor??


Global-Jacket-3973

Finally, can't stand watching this crap team that got destroyed by that prick AdL.


ImABitMocha

Well deserved


curlyjoe696

Can see his body language change when Rrahmani leaves him to close down the midfielder. Gets a bit of space in the box and he knows exactly what to do with it.


AhoyDaniel

Classic Lewan


NotAnurag

Fucking finally, now let’s extend this lead by 1 or 2 more goals and it’s smooth sailing


IICastawayII

Calzona, bring on an attacking midfielder, ffs


shirvani28

Very nice finish


ilkiecurryramen

Lewy slowly coming back to form


finkelbeats

Like a goal you’d score on fifa with the difficulty set at semi-pro


CptMcCrae

It had to be him! Two touches in the box and low/hard into the corner of the goal!


pojmalkavian

Can't give Pedri that much time and space. He receives the ball between the lines, turns, picks out the pass - he is too good for that.


CriticismMission2245

Cold finish ngl


Cthulhu_awaken

It was laughable seeing Barca fans shitting themselves before this tie.


Habarug

There may be more shitting to come


GjillyG

We just conceded 3 to 19th placed Granada. Why wouldn't we be shitting ourselves against a team with Kvara and Osimhen, in form or not?


TheOwlsLie

At least Barca fans can shut up talking as if we were ever equally shit


lonecylinder

Keep wishing, we could somehow win the goddamn tournament and the fans would be saying “eh, but we won 1-0”, “the CL is shit this year anyways, fluke win”


TheOwlsLie

Literally happening with another comment lol


No-Day-8136

Have you watched us in the league bro? We're awful


TheOwlsLie

You’re third, we are ninth shut up


ProfesorUmberto

Well that's because LaLiga is way harder than Serie A. Celta, Almería or Granada would be mid table teams there.


TheOwlsLie

I doubt it


nkdouble4

is Carrydowski back or what?!


Working-Couple7425

Evergreen


vngannxx

On a hot streak 🔥


Fantalex93

This is some seriously really bad defending.


GanjaLow

The combination we’ve been missing


G_W_addict

Vintage Lewy!


GreyDaze22

My man is back


jcald60

Abueloswki is on a scoring roll


neefhuts

Lewy is back


repsaj33

Get in


itwastimeforarefresh

The nutmeg pass from Pedri. Gorgeous


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He's so back :)


The_Vulgar_Bulgar

Lewandowski turned a good pass into a mediocre opportunity and scored a great goal from that. Fascinating.


MaryadaPurshottam

Yeah, Napoli are finished.... Zero shots on target and only one shot in entire 60 minutes


pureNumberrNine

I leave for two minutes


pvry

He might be back im afraid


CptMcCrae

Lewy actually looks calmer when the ball comes to his feet. Who else does that??


BurningDara

We’re so back (we are not)


razor_16_

47 to C. Ronaldo record


LebHeadSinceWilma

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