Barcelona knew Robert Lewandowski was good. But not this good

INEVITABLE: Robert Lewandowski celebrates after scoring Barcelona's first goal against Mallorca on Saturday. Pic: Alex Caparros/Getty Images)

Turns out the guy who had scored 618 career goals, and run at more than 25 a year every year for more than a decade, was quite good. There were plenty of players missing when La Liga returned from the international break this weekend, but not him. He, it seems, is inevitable. And so when they had finished, there he was, quietly standing above them all. 

Robert Lewandowski, the Polish Ian Rush and the Spanish Pichichi. And, who knows, perhaps something more: he, after all, has just taken his team to a place they hadn’t been in two and a half years.