Robert Lewandowski Rewrites Bundesliga Record Books, Scores Five Goals in Nine Minutes Tuesday Sep 22,2015

 

  Bayern Munich striker Robert Lewandowski stepped off the bench at half-time against Wolfsburg to score five goals in nine minutes during a 5-1 comeback win on Tuesday Sep 22,2015

 

Robert Lewandowski  scored a record-breaking five goals in just nine minutes as Bayern Munich thrash Wolfsburg 5-1 to go on top of the Bundesliga table

Bayern were 1-0 down at the break thanks to a goal by Wolfsburg winger Daniel Caligiuri when coach Pep Guardiola opted to swap midfielder Thiago Alcantara for Lewandowski.

Robert Lewandowski,the Poland striker scored just six minutes later to start his record-breaking haul as he demolished the Wolfsburg defence in a dazzling display.

"I am very happy, that was crazy," beamed Robert Lewandowski.
"We were 1-0 down when I came on and I knew we had to give some gas, but it's unbelievable to get five goals."

It was his best haul since scoring all four for ex-club Borussia Dortmund in their 4-1 win over Real Madrid in the 2013 Champions League semi-final.
"To score four goals in a Champions League semi-final was very important and a big story in my career, but to score five goals means this is another big evening for me," Robert Lewandowski
added.

Robert Lewandowski set the record for the fastest hat-trick, as he needed just three minutes, 19 seconds to hit his first three goals.

Lewandowski took six minutes to score his opener - sliding home from close range  

 

His second came 58 seconds later with a brilliant effort from distance 

 

Two minutes later, he took three attempts to score the third - first hitting the post and then forcing a save  

 

Another two minutes on and he volleyed home a fourth 

 

It took him more than three minutes to add his fifth, with a brilliant acrobatic volley

 

Records fall to devastating Robert Lewandowski

• Lewandowski scored the quickest Bundesliga hat-trick (four minutes). Then set a new record for four goals in the same match. And then did likewise for five, too.
• He became the first Bundesliga substitute to score more than a hat-trick.
• The Pole scored the fastest five-goal haul in a major European league since Opta started recording stats.
• He was one short of Dieter Muller's Bundesliga record of six goals in a game, when Cologne beat Werder Bremen 7-2 in 1977.
• Lewandowski is the third Bayern player to score five in a game - Gerd Muller did so three times, and Dieter Hoeness once.

  Lewandowski and his wife Anna Stachurska celebrated the five-goal phenomenon after the game 

Note

It was the first time five goals have been scored in the Bundesliga since Michael Toennies in August 1991 in a 6-2 win for Duisburg against Karlsruhe.

Robert Lewandowski's haul was the first time a player has come off the bench to score five goals in a Bundesliga game.

Lewandowski fell just short of matching the record goal-haul for a single Bundesliga match of six achieved by Cologne's Dieter Mueller in their 7-2 win over Werder Bremen in August 1977.