Guardiola ‘cannot explain’ Lewandowski performance
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| Robert Lewandowski created history against Wolfsburg(Bongarts) |
With Bayern 1-0 down to Daniel Caligiuri’s goal at half-time, Guardiola summoned Lewandowski from the bench, with the Poland international subsequently firing home five goals in a barnstorming run officially clocked at eight minutes and 57 seconds.
Guardiola was visibly baffled as Lewandowski secured a thrilling 5-1 scoreline, and commented afterwards: “I’ve never experienced such a situation, either as coach or as a player.
“Five goals in nine minutes. I am very happy for Robert. You play poorly for 45 minutes and then grab five goals in nine minutes. I cannot explain it.”
Wolfsburg boss Dieter Hecking fared no better in attempting to explain Lewandowski’s showing.
He added: “What can I say? A world-class striker shot five times on goal and could have scored seven. That is how it happened.
“But with our quality this should not happen.
“We had a good first half and Bayern could not up the pace of the game and then came these nine minutes. It’s inexplicable.”
“I am very satisfied, that was incredible,” Lewandowski told Sky. “I just wanted to shoot, I didn’t really think what will happen afterwards.
“Having been one down, we knew that we must improve and score twice at least. But five goals, that’s incredible.”
Lewandowski’s was the fastest hat-trick in Bundesliga history and also the first time a substitute had scored five in the German top flight, and the 28-year-old admits he was shocked when he looked at the scoreboard.
“I don’t know how fast it was, but it was fast,” he added. “But when you’re on the pitch, you’re just focused on football. After the fourth I looked at the scoreboard, it was the 60th minute and I only thought: ‘Ooh’.
“Guardiola didn’t need to say anything, I know what I have to do on the pitch. But it was only one game, we have to win the next games as well. We are Bayern Munich.”
Lewandowski was immediately asked to compare the game to Borussia Dortmund’s 4-1 thrashing of Real Madrid in the 2013 UEFA Champions League semi-final, in which he scored four.
“It was a very important game. That was a very big event in my life,” he said. “Now five goals, that is a great night for me. But there are many games to go, and it won’t be that easy to score in every game.”
Wolfsburg midfielder Maximilian Arnold, however, could only rue the defensive collapse from his side in the early part of the second half.
“We can’t explain that, five goals in nine minutes,” said the 21-year-old. “There is no reason to talk about, it’s just s***.”
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