Robert Lewandowski Passes Hundred As Champions Barcelona Sign Off In Style

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Last Updated:May 26, 2025, 09:34 IST

Barcelona celebrated their La Liga rubric with a 3-0 triumph implicit Athletic Bilbao, Lewandowski scoring doubly to surpass 100 goals for the club.

Robert Lewandowski celebrates scoring his side's opening extremity during the Spanish La Liga crippled betwixt Athletic Bilbao and Barcelona (Picture credit: AP)

La Liga champions Barcelona celebrated a palmy play with a 3-0 triumph astatine Athletic Bilbao connected Sunday successful their last match, with Robert Lewandowski netting doubly to walk his 100-goal milestone for the club.

The seasoned Polish forward, 36, reached 27 league goals for the season, though helium finished down Real Madrid’s Kylian Mbappe connected 31.

Barcelona wrapped up a home treble with Copa del Rey and Spanish Super Cups wins, portion fourth-place Athletic besides had a good play and returned to the Champions League for the archetypal clip successful 11 years.

Athletic defender Oscar de Marcos made his 570th and last quality for the club, down lone Jose Angel Iribar, a goalkeeper who played 614 times successful the 1960s and 70s, successful the club’s history.

Even Iribar mightiness not person saved Lewandowski’s opener aft the striker was fed by Fermin Lopez, brilliantly scooping implicit existent Bilbao goalkeeper Unai Simon to enactment Barca up and rack up the Catalans’ 100th league extremity of the season.

It besides brought up a period of goals for Lewandowski successful a Barcelona garment since joining successful 2022 from Bayern Munich, and different was soon to follow.

Three minutes later, Lewandowski nodded successful astatine the backmost station aft a country was flicked into his path.

“I americium precise happy, precise arrogant to beryllium portion of this team, this club, it’s been thing amazing," Lewandowski told Barca One.

“I effort to bash my best, not lone with goals but my cognition connected and disconnected the transportation — and determination are truthful galore young players we person to instrumentality attraction of them.

“We did thing large (this season), but we cognize we tin inactive bash a batch (more) things."

Lewandowski missed 2 bully chances successful the 2nd fractional arsenic Barca tried to agelong their pb and motion disconnected successful style.

In the Barcelona goal, Inaki Pena showed crisp reactions to extremity a shot against the barroom arsenic a Pau Cubarsi deflection headed towards his ain goal.

Barcelona’s 17-year-old prima Lamine Yamal forced a astute prevention astatine his adjacent station from Simon.

The Catalans got their 3rd erstwhile Dani Olmo won and past converted a punishment successful stoppage time.

After the game, De Marcos gave a code to fans astatine the San Mames and was thrown into the aerial by his teammates.

“I conscionable privation to convey everyone who has been determination connected my path," said the 36-year-old defender, who played 16 seasons astatine the club.

“Next play I volition beryllium successful the stands, arsenic conscionable different Athletic fan."

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