Absurd of the year. Robert Lewandowski has no chance any more

maintains an amazing shooting form. The captain of the Polish national team and the player in 23 matches of the 2021/22 season scored as many as 27 goals in all competitions and recorded three assists. In turn, in the previous season, in addition to, inter alia, Germany and KMW championships broke almost 50-year record in the number of goals scored in one season in the Bundesliga. The Pole hit the net 41 times.

Lewandowski at a distant place in the CIES ranking. Announcement of results in January 2022

All these team and individual successes did not help much in the plebiscite of the weekly “Football Observatory CIES”, which placed the Pole in only 17th place in the elections for the best footballer of the year, but the plebiscite will last until the end of 2021, so the Pole’s position may still change.

“The rankings are prepared on the basis of a method of unique research and algorithms that combine the playing time of footballers and the sports level of the teams or games in which they took part,” reads football-observatory.com.

The best outfield player at the moment is Real Madrid. The Austrian is ahead of Ruben Dias from Manchester City and Milan Skriniar from Inter Milan. The best goalkeeper at the moment is Thibaut Courtois from Real Madrid. takes a distant 14th place.

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Lewandowski has been collecting awards in other polls in recent weeks. It is true that in the Golden Ball he lost by only 33 points to Leom Messi, but the Pole and in the IFFHS poll (International Federation of Football Historians and Statistics).

You can see the entire current ranking of the CIES weekly. The final announcement of the best footballer of 2021 according to CIES will take place in January 2022. In previous editions, the best were, among others Ivan Rakitić and Alisson Becker (in 2018), Virgil van Dijk and Ederson Moraes (in 2019), Andrew Robertson and Thibaut Courtois (in 2020).