Lewandowski not among bookies’ chief favourites
Robert Lewandowski, who has won the last two FIFA The Best Men’s Player awards, would surely have collected the Ballon d’Or in 2020 had that edition of the award not been cancelled because of the pandemic.
That year, he starred in Bayern Munich’s 2019/20 Champions League win, top-scoring in Europe’s elite club competition with 15 goals – just two short of the single-season record.
Lewandowski finished second to Lionel Messi in the 2021 Ballon d’Or voting.
Last term, the Pole scored 50 goals in 46 games for Bayern – decent, like – but is not among the chief favourites for the men’s Ballon d’Or award in 2022. He’s behind the likes of Karim Benzema, Erling Haaland and Kylian Mbappé in the betting.
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