, hoping to safe a top-eight end and progress on to the Spherical of 16.
Until one thing drastic occurs, Robert Lewandowski seems poised to begin because the No. 9 for the Blaugrana tonight on the Spotify Camp Nou, with Ferran Torres solely lately getting back from an damage.
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Lewandowski eyes Messi report
Approaching his thirty eighth birthday, Lewandowski continues to make historical past. He might add one other chapter tonight if he scores in his first profession match towards FC Copenhagen.
The Barcelona ahead would add the Danish aspect to the checklist of groups he has scored towards in Europe’s high competitors.
Final week, he turned Slavia Prague into his thirty ninth sufferer, transferring previous the 38 of Cristiano Ronaldo and shutting in on the 40 achieved by Lionel Messi with Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain. Scoring tonight would take him degree with the previous Barça captain.
The Pole had not but opened his account on this version of the European Cup. Together with his purpose within the Czech capital, he has now scored in 15 consecutive Champions League seasons. He’s the third-highest scorer within the competitors’s historical past, sharing the rostrum with Cristiano and Messi.
Lewandowski is a prolific scorer within the Champions League. (Picture by Gabriel Kuchta/Getty Pictures)
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Ronaldo leads with 140 targets in 183 matches, a mean of 0.76 per recreation, the identical as Lewandowski, who has 106 targets in 139 appearances for Borussia Dortmund, Bayern Munich and Barcelona. Between them sits Messi, with 129 targets in 163 matches.
At his age, catching them general is unrealistic, however Lewandowski might nonetheless climb the rating of Barcelona gamers with essentially the most targets within the European Cup.
Messi’s 129 targets are out of attain, however Lewandowski already has 20 in 33 matches as a Barcelona participant, the identical whole as Luis Enrique achieved in 41 video games. He’s now solely behind Luis Suarez (25), Rivaldo (25), Neymar (21) and Patrick Kluivert (21).
He has already moved forward of legends reminiscent of Samuel Eto’o, who scored 18 targets in 40 European Cup matches for Barcelona. Hristo Stoichkov scored 15 in 30 matches, Pedro added 15 in 61, and Ronaldinho left for Milan with 14 in 35.