UEFA Champions League Lewandowski sends Bayern Munich to UCL round of 16 with hat-trick vs Benfica

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Bayern Munich had another great UEFA Champions league night on Tuesday evening as they trashed Benfica 5-2 at Allianz Arena with a hat-trick of Polish striker Robert Lewandowski.

Lewy opened the scoring inside 26 minutes of play with Serge Gnabry following in his footsteps six minutes later.

Morato reduced the scoreline for the visitors few minutes before the break (38th).

However, they failed to maintain the fighting spirit which was in them in the first half and conceded a third goal as Leroy Sane also wrote his name in the scoresheet.

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Robert Lewandowski scoring his first goal from a header against Benfica.
Robert Lewandowski scoring his first goal from a header against Benfica.

Lewandowski back at it again with a brace in the 74th minute before another reducer from Darwin Nunez.

And once again, Bayern Munich had the final say with Robert Lewandowski scoring a hat-trick to propel the Bundesliga giants to the round of 16 of 2021/22 UEFA Champions league season.

Bayern Munich are going to take on Dynamo Kyiv who lost 0-1 to Barcelona for their fourth game.


Aimé ATTI

Aimé ATTI is a bilingual journalist who breathes football and shares his passion on Africa Top Sports

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