{"id":1200530,"date":"2022-09-08T07:50:41","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T07:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/08\/lewandowksi-scores-hat-trick-for-barca-before-bayern-return\/"},"modified":"2022-09-08T07:50:41","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T07:50:41","slug":"lewandowksi-scores-hat-trick-for-barca-before-bayern-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/08\/lewandowksi-scores-hat-trick-for-barca-before-bayern-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewandowksi Scores Hat-trick For Barca Before Bayern Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Robert Lewandowski warmed up for next week\u2019s meeting with former club Bayern Munich by scoring a magnificent hat-trick in Barcelona\u2019s crushing Champions League win over Viktoria Plzen.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old Poland forward demonstrated his value by making it eight goals in five games since leaving Bayern in July.<\/p>\n<p>Lewandowski, who helped Bayern win the competition in 2019-20, marked his first Champions League appearance for Barca with a clinical finish which doubled the lead after Franck Kessie had headed the hosts ahead.<\/p>\n<p>He then made it 3-1 on the stroke of half-time with a header after Ousmane Dembele did well to win back possession before producing a fine cross.<\/p>\n<p>Viktoria Plzen had briefly given their travelling fans from the Cech Republic something to cheer when Jan Sykora headed past Marc-Andre ter Stegen, but Barca \u2013 and Lewandowski \u2013 proved far too strong.<\/p>\n<p>Lewandowski completed his hat-trick after 67 minutes following an assist by former Manchester City forward Ferran Torres, who added the fifth.<\/p>\n<p>Lewandowski is the first player to score a Champions League hat-trick for three different teams \u2013 one for Borussia Dortmund, four for Bayern Munich, one for Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p>This result was the perfect start to Group C for Barcelona, who face Bayern next Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Lewandowski joined Bayern on a free transfer in 2014 after his departure from Borussia Dortmund and scored 50 goals in 46 games last season as he helped Bayern win a 10th straight Bundesliga title.<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Lewandowski warmed up for next week\u2019s meeting with former club Bayern Munich by scoring a magnificent hat-trick in Barcelona\u2019s crushing Champions League win over Viktoria Plzen. The 34-year-old Poland forward demonstrated his value by making it eight goals in five games since leaving Bayern in July. Lewandowski, who helped Bayern win the competition in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1200532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[552,729,919,25393,1970,2929],"class_list":["post-1200530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-barca","tag-bayern","tag-hattrick","tag-lewandowksi","tag-return","tag-scores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1200530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1200530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1200530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1200530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}