Lewandowski Has Stunning Five Star Performance Off The Bench

A superb strike by Wolfsburg’s Daniel Caligiuri had given the visitors a shock lead until the 27-year-old Lewandowski sent Bundesliga records tumbling, including needing just three minutes, 19 seconds to claim his hat-trick.

As his captain Philipp Lahm put it: “He could have gone home with seven goals” while Thomas Mueller said Lewandowski had inspired those around him.

“At half-time a player came in who did a little something”.

“Each time I hit the ball, it went in”.

Speaking exclusively to goal.com, Lahm – who retired from global duty in 2014 after winning the world cup with Germany – said he considered moving to premier league after Manchester United enquired about his availability.

Our landlord here in the Transfer Tavern says he has never seen anything like it and shared Pep Guardiola’s stunned expression much to the amusement of our punters at the bar!

Ricardo Rodríguez denied Lewandowski a sixth with a clearance off the line as Bayern’s Polish striker tore like a whirlwind through the Wolfsburg defence, despite being touch and go before kick-off due to injury. “I’m just pleased he’s on my team”. Without Lewandowski, Bayern may have been coming to terms with their first defeat of the season on Tuesday night.

“I just wanted to shoot and wasn’t thinking about what happened afterwards”.

“He’s one of the best attackers in the world and I’m glad that he plays in my team”, he added.

It was nevertheless hard for Wolfsburg coach Dieter Hecking to digest, particularly as his side looked on course for a third straight win over Bayern, having dished out a 4-1 win in January and beaten them in the Supercup in August.

Lewandowski, 27, admitted being amazed by how fast his goals flew in, but had been hungry for more.

“That really should not be happening”.

And it was 5-1 by the 60th minute, with the Pole netting all five goals for the German champions, breaking all sorts of records in the process. We had a good first half and Bayern could not up the pace of the game and then came these nine minutes.