Bayern Munich striker Robert Lewandowski has become the third player to go past the 250-goals mark in the German competition, Bundesliga. The 32-year-old is now only the third player in Bundesliga history to reach the landmark after Gerd Muller (365) and Klaus Fischer (268). However, the striker is the first non-German to score 250 goals in Bundesliga. Lewandowski achieved the feat in Bayern Munich’s 2-1 victory against Wolfsburg at the Allianz Arena on Wednesday. The striker scored his 250th goal through a header and then, later on, he registered his 251st goal to hand Bayern a win and much-needed three points.
"I haven't thought about it (the awards), I was just focused on this game - I'm pretty relaxed about it, let's see what happens," he told Sky after his two goals.
Leverkusen, who host Bayern in Saturday's top-of-the-table clash, remain first in the table - a point ahead of Munich - after a 4-0 romp away to Cologne in the Rhineland derby. Wolfsburg took a shock lead within five minutes at the Allianz Arena when Leroy Sane's error on the edge of the area led to Maximilian Philipp smashing home the loose ball. Wolfsburg's Dutch striker Wout Weghorst then had a goal ruled offside on 17 minutes. Robert Lewandowski reached the 250-goal milestone when he headed Bayern's equaliser just before the break. Lewandowski then fired the winner into the bottom corner of the net on 50 minutes.
Lewandowski took 332 games to go past the 250-goals mark, and this has made him quicker than Fischer (460) but not as quick as Muller (284). The striker has scored 22 goals in 20 Bundesliga games against Wolfsburg and this is the most he has scored against a single opponent. Lewandowski had made the move to Bayern Munich from Borussia Dortmund in 2014, where he has remained for the past seven seasons.
He has won the Bundesliga in every season he has played for Bayern, and he finally lifted the Champions League 2019-20 campaign when his side defeated Paris Saint-Germain in the finals.
Things remain tight at the top of the table as third-placed RB Leipzig stayed level on 28 points with Bayern with a 1-0 win at Hoffenheim thanks to Yussuf Poulsen's second-half winner.
Schalke 04 are three short of matching an unwanted Bundesliga record after their 2-0 home defeat against Freiburg left the league's bottom side without a win in their last 28 games