8. years. Eight long years, during which Bayern Munich had the commodity of owning one of the best strikers in the world in their squad. And that was a relief for everybody in the club, since they basically had a guy who is guaranteed to score at least 40 goals per season. Not a small number. In fact, since his first season with the Bavarians in 2014, when he scored ‘only’ 25, Robert Lewandowski never scored less than 40 goals per season. His totally tally is 344 in 375 matches, and there were seasons during his 8 year tenure where he had over 50 goals per year. Muller goodbye message to Lewandowski 🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/EEC7JPj2gU— Essel ✌️ (@thatEsselguy) July 16, 2022 But, Bayern Munich are not without their best striking force. Sadio Mane arrived, but he is not a typical number 9, while the 28 million “wunderkind” Mathys Tel cannot be new Lewa, since he is only 17. The same goes for Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting, a 33 year old reserve coach. Will Bayern have problems in the attack? Not if you ask Thomas Muller.“We’re not playing with ten men now because Lewy is gone. Of course, a lot of balls went to him. But there will be another player there in the future. To put it bluntly: the ball stays in play and hopefully the opponent won’t always have it instead of Lewy. But if you know that you have such a dangerous striker in the box, then at some point you consciously play the ball there and try to bring him into play. The statics of our game presentation will inevitably change now, it will be exciting to see how and where we develop on offense in the coming months. But positively exciting!” explained Muller to BILD during Bayern’s preseason.***TOP 5 LEAGUES FIXTURES – DON’T TOUCH***The attacking midfielder is one of rare academy products who made it through the first team, and even thou Manuel Neuer is the captain, it’s safe to say that Thomas Muller is the real Bayern Munich. So, when he speaks, everybody listen. And since he has been in the club like forever, he also remembered one similar situation.“Our goal must be that we don’t sit together again in six months and say: Phew, now we’re missing the goals, we have a problem. Maybe we’ll actually score fewer goals than before. But that doesn’t mean that we will be any less successful as a team. For example, Mario Mandzukic came in 2012 and replaced Mario Gomez in the center. Mandzukic wasn’t the better striker, he didn’t have better scoring stats than Mario. But somehow we were almost invincible as a team in this special treble year 2012/13” reminded Muller. We’ll soon see if he was right.
