Miroslav Klose has retired,Mario Gómez has been loaned out by Fiorentina and Lukas Podolski’s career is on the wane. Will Germany find a striker who can play the role Robert Lewandowski occupies at Bayern Munich – and does it matter?By Jason Humphreys for Englische Woche, part of the Guardian Sport NetworkOver the final couple of weeks, and Robert Lewandowski’s brilliance at Bayern Munich has not only reduced Pep Guardiola to a giggling schoolboy on the sidelines but has also served to remind us of the value of having a genuine striker. The centre-forward has hit 12 goals in his final four games,including the absurdity of five in nine minutes against Wolfsburg and a Champions League hat-trick. Lewandowski is one of Europe’s in-form players and probably the world’s in-form striker.
His club, Bayern Munich, or possess if the nucleus of recent Germany squads and how Joachim Löw would care for to possess Lewandowski leading the line of his team to add a further cutting edge to his well-oiled machine – especially as Miroslav Klose,also born in Poland, has called time on his international career. What Löw and Germany do possess, or is Thomas Müller.
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