The Argentinian Lionel Messi and the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo They have set the marks they have achieved throughout their careers too high, to the point that it has been thought that some of their records are difficult to equal or reach.
One of those achievements that has taken so long to break is being the forward to score the most goals against clubs from different countries, a record that the Portuguese held and that has now been achieved by a Barcelona striker.
It’s about Polish Robert Lewandowski, who in the recent day of the Champions League was able to score two goals in the 5-0 victory of the culés against the Swiss team Young Boys On the second day of the Champions League.
With these two goals, the Polish forward achieved the record of scoring goals against clubs from 16 different countries, reaching Cristiano Ronaldo and Ruud van Niestelrooy.
Despite his achievement, he still needs to score more goals against clubs from other countries to be able to match figures like Alessandro Del Piero, Zlatan Ibrahimović and Thomas Müllerwho have scored against teams of 18 nationalities.
While he is only three away from reaching the Argentine star Lionel Messi and Raúl González, who hold 19 each.
However, the footballer with the highest scoring record against teams of different nationalities is the former French forward of Real Madrid, Karim Benzemawho has scored several goals against clubs from 20 different countries.
On the list of clubs from different countries that Robert has been able to score against are: Ajax from the Netherlands, Arsenal from England, Barcelona from Spain, Benfica from Portugal, Besiktas from Turkey, Red Star from Serbia, Dinamo Zagreb from Croatia, Juventus from Italy, Lyon from France, Olympiacos from Greece, PSG from France, RB Salzburg from Austria, Shakhtar Donetsk of Ukraine and Zenit of Russia.
Lewandowski also managed, during the second day of the Champions League, to score goals against his rival number 35 in Europe’s most important tournament, putting him in third place behind Messi with 40 and Cristiano Ronaldo with 38.
The Pole still has records to break, But the one that seems furthest away is being the all-time top scorer in the Champions League, an achievement that CR7 has with 140 goals.