The defender insists that the striker is right to stay at the club, but has warned him he cannot score without his team-mates <\/p>\n
Bayern Munich defender Joshua Kimmich has backed Robert Lewandowski following the striker’s outburst against the club’s management, but reminded his free-scoring team-mate that he cannot find the net on his own.<\/p>\n
Lewandowski slammed the club for not defending him against the criticism that came his way after Bayern’s exit from the Champions League in last season’s semi-finals, saying he “felt no protection” and “felt alone”.<\/p>\n
After contemplating a move away from Allianz Arena, Lewandowski\u00a0revealed\u00a0the support of the club’s fans convinced him to stay, and Kimmich insists he is taking the Poland international at his word.<\/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 “I don’t know what was said to Robert personally and what was said in public,” Kimmich told reporters.<\/p>\n “But if Robert says that he missed that [support from the club], I don’t know if it’s true, but you have to believe him.<\/p>\n “I think that appraisal can’t be defined on the fact what was said in public. It’s just about communication, and you confirm that by talking face-to-face to a player.”<\/p>\n Kimmich hailed Lewandowski’s scoring record at Bayern, where he has plundered 106 Bundesliga goals in just four seasons, conceding\u00a0the 30-year-old has been the team’s saviour\u00a0on numerous occasions.<\/p>\n However, Kimmich has suggested that Lewandowski must keep in mind the importance of solidarity between team-mates amid his criticisms of the club’s hierarchy and calls for more support.<\/p>\n “I’m sure, Robert knows how important he is for us,” said Kimmich. “It is almost certain that he scores 30 goals in a Bundesliga\u00a0season.<\/p>\n “On the other hand, he has to realise that he won\u2019t score all those goals without the help of his team-mates. He can’t do that on his own.<\/p>\n “So there is not only appraisal from the other players towards him, but there has to be some appraisal from Robert towards us, too.”<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The defender insists that the striker is right to stay at the club, but has warned him he cannot score without his team-mates Bayern Munich defender Joshua Kimmich has backed Robert Lewandowski following the striker’s outburst against the club’s management, but reminded his free-scoring team-mate that he cannot find the net on his own. Lewandowski…<\/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-860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860","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=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Editors' Picks<\/h3>\n