Lewandowski scores five goals in nine minutes for Bayern Munich

Lewandowski scores five goals in nine minutes for Bayern Munich

Bayern Munich were struggling as they played Bundesliga high-flyers Wolfsburg on Tuesday - until Robert Lewandowski came off the bench to score five times.

The Polish striker had been left on the bench by Pep Guardiola for the clash against the third-placed side in Germany, and was called on for Thiago at half-time with Bayern trailing 1-0.

And what a stroke of genius it turned out to be: Lewandowski scored on 51 minutes, added another within seconds of the restart, scored his hat trick two minutes after that - in three minutes 22 seconds, one of the fastest ever - before adding a fourth in the 57th minute and then rifling another in the 60th minute.

The last of those goals was by far the best: a staggering bicycle kick volley from almost 20 yards out.
That fifth goal came nine minutes to the second after the first one went in.

Bayern coach Guardiola couldn't believe what he was seeing - this was clearly new territory even for a man who spent several years managing Leo Messi.
Lewandowski's amazing sequence beat the old record for the Bundesliga's fastest hat-trick, held by Michael Tonnies, who scored three goals in five minutes for MSV Duisburg against Karlsruher in August 1991. Tonnies, like Lewandowski, went on to score five.

Unlike Lewandowski, he'd never scored in the German top flight before, ended up with 13 goals that season, and never scored in the Bundesliga again for the rest of his career.

As far as Eurosport's initial checks show, no player in world football has ever scored five goals as quickly.

Lewandowski is no stranger to fast-scoring antics. Just a few months ago he scored a hat-trick in three minutes 59 seconds for Poland in a Euro 2016 qualifier against Georgia, turning a nervy 1-0 win into a 4-0 thumping.