A superb goal from right winger Caligiuri gave Wolfsburg the lead on 26 minutes when he drilled his shot inside the near post and past Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer after cutting in from the wing.
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His haul came from nine shots and 30 touches.
One of the main difference in the methods with which the two players accomplished the task was that Lewandowski scored all five of his goals from direct play, where as Ronaldo added to his tally by scoring from the spot.
“At half-time a player came in who did a little something”. He seemed to have stopped playing after five goals and that was disappointing.
He said: “As a player you always think about your options, and there was a time where Manchester United made an approach for me – and Barcelona looked at me too – so I considered life in England or Spain”.
The Poland striker scored again in the 57th and claimed another goal three minutes after that, when he met Mario Goetze’s cross with a scissor kick into the top corner. “Maybe five minutes?”
To put Lewandowski’s haul in perspective, both Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur needed six league games to score five goals.
Wolfsburg coach Dieter Hecking, who had not seen his side concede in their last four matches in all competitions, took the astonishing defeat with good grace.
His hot streak continued with goal number five in 10 minutes, an even sweeter volley from the edge of the box which had even Guardiola holding his head in shock on the touchline. And it was the first time five goals have been scored in a single German league match since Michael Toennies in August 1991 in a 6-2 win for Duisburg against Karlsruhe.
Former England striker and TV pundit Gary Lineker simply wrote “Utterly ridiculous!”
“That’s a miracle”, he tweeted.
Having started the first 13 league matches of the 2010/11 season as Barrios’s understudy, Lewandowski seized his chance with 22 goals in 34 league games for Dortmund the following season.
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“I just wanted to shoot and wasn’t thinking about what happened afterwards”.
