LEWANDOWSKI CAME OFF THE BENCH AGAINST CROATIA
Alarm bells ringing at Barça! Lewandowski played injured against Poland
Published:15/10/2024 - 23:44h
Updated:16/10/2024 - 05:04h
Lewandowski was left on the bench for Poland-Croatia due to a slight injury. However, he forced himself to play the last half hour of the match
Robert Lewandowski caused a scare in the run-up to Poland-Croatia when he suffered a setback during his national team's warm-up, which prevented the striker from starting in the match corresponding to the fourth day of the Nations League. The national team's coach, Michał Probierz, confirmed before the match that "Robert has a slight injury", although he did not give more details about the discomfort of the FC Barcelona striker.
However, and in a radical turn of events, 'Lewy' entered the field in the 62nd minute to replace Karol Świderski, with the score 2-3 and his team practically eliminated from this edition of the continental tournament. A change that saved the Poles, who remain alive two days from the end of the first phase thanks to an assist from the '9' that allowed the Eagles to scrape a miraculous draw (3-3).
Barça, attentive to Lewandowski's physical condition
Beyond this, the alarm bells have been raised at Can Barça due to Lewandowski's physical condition, although we will have to wait to see if the forward really played injured or if it was just discomfort and he agreed to come in with the coach if the result was adverse, as was the case. As if that were not enough, Robert was the victim of a very hard tackle by Dominik Livakovic, Croatia's goalkeeper, at knee height which ended with the goalkeeper being sent off.
Thus, the case of 'Lewy' is added to that of Lamine Yamal in a 'hot' week for Barça, which faces a key moment of the season with the duels against Sevilla and Bayern in Montjuïc and, above all, the Clásico against Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabéu next Saturday, October 26.