In just nine minutes against Wolfsburg Lewandowski scored as many goals as Wayne Rooney has scored in his last nine Manchester United games, hitting a remarkable five to turn a 1-0 deficit into an emphatic Bayern victory.
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“I think I answered my critics past year when I ended up the club’s top scorer despite not playing for almost six months of the season”, said Griffiths.
“We’ve discussed things with his manager so it’s not as if I’ve not had a few sympathy with his situation”.
Robertson knows the atmosphere at a sold-out Hampden will be a heady mix of anticipation, excitement and trepidation but, the Hull City defender insisted, those chosen by Strachan have to keep their cool and display a degree of patience that won’t be matched by the Tartan Army. He has played on the right for much of this season though, will he be able to immediately adapt to the other side of defence? “But we understand that there are a few right good players in the Polish side”.
“We’re doing it week in, week out in the Premier League at the minute and this will be no different. The last thing we want is having to play our final game against Republic of Ireland with a knife to our throat”.
“But as a defender I always look at strikers’ attributes, where you can affect them and try to influence him throughout the game”.
Stark said: “The fact all the players have scored in matches for their clubs could change Gordon’s thinking on his team selection for the game”.
“I didn’t see any signs of their heads going down against Germany, despite the disappointment of defeat in Georgia when they deserved more, and hopefully they will get what they deserve against Poland”.
“I have total respect for him, he’s a fantastic player, but we have players in form as well”.
“You run the risk of getting booked or sent off now with the way the game has gone in terms of physicality”.
Griffiths has taken his domestic form into Europe, hitting a double against Malmo and netting against Fenerbahce.
“It’s not something that I would say couldn’t work, that those two couldn’t play together”. I don’t think we’ve
hit the highs that maybe we once did, but we are picking up results and that’s all that counts.
Nadir Ciftci was bought in the summer with the idea that he would take over the mantle of Celtic’s main European striker. I came back and was captain again.
“You can look it up and find the exact figures but we worked out it is about 30% more”.
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Where the likes of Dante and Mats Hummels have fallen dramatically short Gordon Strachan’s side will need to hold off a striker who has managed an incredible twelve goals in his last four games.
