The Poland international hit a hat-trick against Eintracht Frankfurt on Sunday, earning praise from his team-mate and sporting director <\/p>\n
Thomas Muller says Robert Lewandowski underlined\u00a0why Bayern Munich have refused to sell him with his hat-trick in the DFL-Supercup\u00a0on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The Poland striker scored three times as Niko Kovac’s side dispatched Eintracht Frankfurt 5-0 at\u00a0the Commerzbank-Arena to claim the trophy.<\/p>\n
Lewandowski’s future has been the subject of intense speculation, with the 29-year-old said to be keen for a new challenge, prompting some to criticise his level of commitment.<\/p>\n
Article continues below<\/span> <\/p>\n Juve on alert: Exiled Icardi may have already played his final game for Inter Sarri vindicated for dropping Kepa as Chelsea & Pedro impress in Spurs win Magnificent Mane takes centre stage as league leaders Liverpool put on a five-star show Lukaku sends reminder that his Man Utd career is far from over <\/p>\n Muller thinks his team-mate’s display was the perfect response and shows why Bayern have been resolute in their refusal to sell.<\/p>\n “That was a great response from him to the criticism,” said Muller.\u00a0“He showed his quality again, although he does not have to prove his class to anyone.<\/p>\n “We have to see that he is at 100 per cent, and then he is enormously important to us. And that’s why the club are not letting him go.”<\/p>\n Jerome Boateng missed the match as talk continues over a move to Paris Saint-Germain, but Muller does not want the centre-back to leave.<\/p>\n “We need Jerome,” he said. “He is a very important player. If he is fit, there are very few defenders who have his quality.”<\/p>\n Sporting director Hasan Salihamidzic also praised the performance of Lewandowski in light of the uncertainty over his future.<\/p>\n “He’s a professional. That was the right reaction, that’s what I wanted him to do,” he said.\u00a0“That was exactly the right answer.<\/p>\n “Lewandowski is, for me, one of the best, if not the best striker in the world. He showed that again.”<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Poland international hit a hat-trick against Eintracht Frankfurt on Sunday, earning praise from his team-mate and sporting director Thomas Muller says Robert Lewandowski underlined\u00a0why Bayern Munich have refused to sell him with his hat-trick in the DFL-Supercup\u00a0on Sunday. The Poland striker scored three times as Niko Kovac’s side dispatched Eintracht Frankfurt 5-0 at\u00a0the Commerzbank-Arena…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Editors' Picks<\/h3>\n