Bayern Munich Striker Beats Messi, Ronaldo to European Golden Boot Award

- Robert Lewandowski will be going home with this season's European Golden Boot award

- The 31-year-old old scored a record breaking 41 goals for Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga

- Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Kylian Mbappe and Harry Kane completed the top five on the list

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Robert Lewandowski scored 41 goals in Bundesliga to break the long standing record of Gerd Muller who netted 40 in the 1971-72 season, Twitter.

The Bayern Munich striker also emerged as the topscorer in Europe with his closest rival Lionel Messi scoring 30 and Cristiano Ronaldo netting 29 goals respectively.

Paris Saint-Germain Kylian Mbappe netted 27 in Ligue 1 while Tottenham's Harry Kane emerged topscorer at the just concluded English Premier League.

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The Poland forward grabbed in his 41st goal in Bayern's final day victory to 5-2 win over Augsburg.

Lewandowski finished as the highest goalscorer in the German topflight division for the fourth consecutive season helping lift the league trophy on those four occasions.

Messi won the European Golden Boot award during the 2011-12 season where he scored a remarkable 50 goals in La Liga.

On the other hand, Ronaldo also finished the 2014-15 season with 48 goals that earned his the topscorer in all of European leagues.

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Meanwhile, Legit.ng had earlier reported that Man of the moment Robert Lewandowski who plays for Bayern Munich has broken Gerd Muller’s 49-year-old record in the German Bundesliga after scoring for his side on Saturday night, May 22.

Bayern Munich players were impressive beating Augsburg 5-2 in front of their faithfuls in which Robert Lewandowski scored his 41st League goal of the season at the death.

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It was an incredible celebration for the Polish striker who had to remove his shirt after scoring the goal in joyous momentum.

Legit.ng had also reported that Cristiano Ronaldo finished as Serie A's topscorer during his second spell with 29 goals making him the first player to win the Golden Boot in England, Italy and Spain, 90 min.

The 36-year-old's 29 goals was assured that he was going to win Seri A's Golden Boot after Inter Milan's Romelu Lukaku finished the season with 24 strikes.

It is also the first time Ronaldo will be finishing as the season's topscorer in Italy since he joined Juventus from Real Madrid back in 2018.