Robert Lewandowski only needed 36 seconds at Anoeta to score the first goal of many at Barça. At least that is what the fans and the club expect. Unsuccessful like the entire team in their debut in the League against Rayo Vallecano, the Polish striker brought out his opportunism as soon as the match against Real Sociedad in Anoeta started.
The play of the goal began on the left, an area of the field that Alejandro Balde initially occupied. The youth squad started to the detriment of Jordi Alba, who like the rest of the captains (Piqué, Sergi Roberto and Busquets, the latter suspended) was left out of the eleven chosen by Xavi Hernández.
The bet on Balde could not have gone better from the beginning to the Blaugrana coach, since the low center that Lewandowski would send into the back of the net would come out of his boots. The former Bayern player was attentive to the play and anticipated the San Sebastian defense to catch the ball and finish off, making Remiro's stretch useless.
Lewandowski had already scored in the Joan Gamper Trophy, when Barça thrashed Pumas mercilessly, but this gains value by being the first in an official match. In addition, the celebration is double, since this Sunday, August 21, coincides with his birthday (34).
In the second half, with the score at 1-2, he returned to hunt inside the area a play started with a filtered pass by Pedri that ended at the feet of Ansu Fati. As in Dembélé's goal, the youth squad assisted again so that Lewandowski scored the third for the Blaugrana.
The goals come in a week in which Lewandowski has been in the news off the field for having been the victim of a robbery near the Ciudad Deportiva Joan Gamper. A man stole a watch from him valued at 70,000 euros that he was finally able to recover.
