Robert Lewandowski and Erling Haaland’s scoring: their impressive numbers at the start of the 2022-2023 season

Sublime. Perhaps there is no better adjective to express what they do Erling Haaland and Robert Lewandowski on both fronts. Two shooters who until last year were rivals in Germany, today live in England and Spain respectively. Clearly a step up in competition level but that didn’t make anyone nervous. The two young strikers in these leagues keep scoring and things are already getting out of hand.

No one can dispute the ability of both. especially Polish. At 34, he has been one of the top scorers in Europe for some time. Perhaps he was badly used to football being considered “normal” to score so many goals in a team like Bayern Munich, who have been playing for years in the local competition and are always favorites in the Champions League. He has already won two FIFA Best Player Awards (2020 and 2021) and has been named Top Scorer of the Season 18 times in the various leagues and levels he has played.

The Norwegian, on the other hand, is something newer that impresses and draws attention in equal measure. At 22, he has scored more goals than many teams in various European leagues since making his debut on May 12, 2016 with Bryne FC in his hometown until today.

His physical and technical qualities are unparalleled. Perhaps because of his height (1.95 meters) and his elasticity, he can remember Zlatan Ibrahimovic, but with even more goals. He has done so much in such a short period of time that, compared to the all-time leading scorer, Cristiano Ronaldo, when he was the same age, the numbers are as different as they are absurd.

Haaland has 193 games and 149 goals. The Portuguese, with the same lifespan, had already played 221 games, but scored just 55 goals.

This season, Robert and Erling have already scored more than 10 goals each, in just six and seven dates played (respectively) in their domestic tournaments, plus two Champions League games. However, Is this the best start to both their careers?

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The Pole’s desire to wear the colors of Barcelona and celebrate goals in La Liga is reflected in his performance on the pitch. In the league he has six games and eight goals. This Saturday against Elche he scored a double and with his first afternoon he became only the seventh player in the entire history of the Iberian league to score seven in his first six games.

Adding the three he scored against Viktoria Plzen of the Czech Republic in Europe, he has collected 11 goals in 8 games on the season.. A rhythm that does not slow down with the passage of time. For the past six seasons, he has been responsible for its maintenance. So much so that over the past six seasons he has averaged 13.6 goals in his first 10 games.

His two best campaigns were in 2015-2016 and 2019-2020 (note how I go on about this). In the first he scored 16 goals between the first eight Bundesliga dates, including celebrities little hand in Wolfsburg which gave him the Guinness World Record for the fastest to score five in nine minutes. At Champions League level, she had scored three goals against Dinamo Zagreb.

In the second I also added 16 goals, with two games at European level including one in the German Cup. But it didn’t stop there. His streak continued until he reached 23 goals in 16 straight games.

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What he does has no name. Although it is true that he has come to a team that will be tired of receiving assists and that with a few touches of the ball he makes the difference, the great moment he lives is to see him as the best possible player in the world (along with Kylian Mbappé), before the decline of Cristiano and Lionel Messi.

Today 2022-23 He has 14 goals in ten games. including his goal against Wolverhampton in matchday seven of the Premier League this Saturday.

This is only equaled by what he did in 2019-2020 when he was still playing for Salzburg of the Austrian league, with the same number of celebrations after seven dates of the domestic competition plus three days of the Champions League in which he scored three against Genk of Belgium, two against Napoli of Italy and one more against Liverpool.

Furthermore, in 2021-2022, his last with Borussia Dortmund, celebrated 15 between the first eight Bundesliga dates, one German Super Cup match and three Champions League matches where he made four. Furthermore, according to ESPN, Halaand has played 99 games and scored 100 goals since leaving Salzburg to conquer Europe.

Arguably two of the best strikers today, save for a Karim Benzema currently sidelined through injury or perhaps Bape and Neymar Jr at PSG, where they add 10 and 11 goals respectively at the start of the season.