Comparing Robert Lewandowski's 2014/15 Stats to His 2013/14 Numbers

Robert Lewandowski was a vitally important member of Bayern Munich's Bundesliga-winning squad last season. Not only was the Poland international seemingly Pep Guardiola's lone trusted striker in, but he at times proved to be the best performer in the squad as a whole.

What is perhaps even more interesting is the manner in which the forward was able to swap the black and yellow of Borussia Dortmund for the red of Bayern without really dropping form or his goalscoring tally.

In 2014/15, he amassed an incredible 25 goals and 13 assists in 49 games for Guardiola's side. That's a truly remarkable tally that puts him in the very top category of players within the European game. 

Yet when we look at his tally for Dortmund the previous season, we find that Lewandowski managed to grab 28 goals and 15 assists under Jurgen Klopp before departing for Munich in the summer.

Just how has Lewandowski performed this season in comparison to his final year in Dortmund?

When we take a look at the graphic below, which shows Lewandowski's goals and assists totals over the course of each month with Bayern in 2014/15 and Dortmund the previous term, we can see that his form for both clubs over the past two seasons tends to follow a relatively similar path but was certainly better at the Westfalenstadion.

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The Polish striker starts off with a very tidy ratio of either a goal or assist per game for both clubs, but we saw the striker's ratio drop to 0.33 goals or assists per game last season, whereas it rose to 1.17 in 2013/14. 

His form in the third month of the campaign, October, took an upward turn for Bayern, rising to a goal or assist per game and overtaking his record at Dortmund from a year before, but it then becomes grim reading for fans of the Bavarian club. 

The large spike is possibly down to the introduction of the Champions League group stage, a competition in which Lewandowski clearly thrives regardless of the team he's playing for. Yet his ratio of four goals or assists per game for Dortmund in 2013/14 clearly towers over 2.5 per game he recorded for Bayern in the most recent campaign. 

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The ratio then drops to just above zero before the winter break but begins to rise again as the striker returns for the second half of the season. From there, we again can see that Lewandowski's form for Dortmund clearly sits above that of his time at Bayern. In February alone, the target man put away 1.2 goals or assists for Dortmund each game, yet for the newly crowned German champions, he only averaged 0.5 per game.

Bayern seemed to get the best out of him in March—1.2 per game compared to 0.67 the year before—and April—0.86 to 0.67—perhaps as they were chasing down a league title while his Dortmund side the year before had very little to play for. However, on the whole, it would seem as though Lewandowski enjoyed a better campaign personally in the 2013/14 season rather than the most recent one. 

In the grand scheme of things, such numbers mean very little. The minute differences between Lewandowski's form this season and the year before merely indicate that Bayern still have the striker who made his name in Dortmund. Sure, he may not have been as clinical as he was under Klopp, but much of that is down to simply settling in to a new squad. 

Next season should bring with it more of the same, if not more, from this outstanding forward, even if he did regress ever so slightly after joining Bayern Munich last summer.

All data used in this article was taken from Transfermarkt.

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