Lewandowski deserves personal trophy to go with this ultimate prize

Bayern's Robert Lewandowski holds a football during a training session at the Luz stadium in Lisbon, Saturday Aug. 22, 2020.

There will be no Ballon D’Or awarded at the end of this strangest of seasons but Robert Lewandowski, on the back of finally lifting the Champions League trophy, would surely have been the choice after the way he has moved into a gear that only Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi have been able to find in recent years.

The Polish international, as he showed with another strong performance in Lisbon, has gone from being a regular in the world’ s top 10 to a serious contender to join those perennial superstars in football’s exclusive lounge for players deemed to be amongst the greatest of all time.