7 players who single-handedly destroyed the opposition in a match

1) Robert Lewandowski vs Wolfsburg

All it takes is nine minutes to destroy an opponent

8 minutes and 59 seconds – that is all it took Robert Lewandowski to leave his mark on a game where Bayern Munich were actually trailing 1-0. The final scoreline read 5-1 after his heroics.

Thrown on as a half-time substitute by Pep Guardiola, even the Catalan manager looked on disbelief with his hands on his head as the Polish striker publicly undressed Wolfsburg with the finest solo performance the Bundesliga had ever seen and also his first hat-trick for the club.

Lewandowski was scoring at such a phenomenal rate that television producers were working overtime to show replays of the previous goal as quickly as possible lest he went and scored another. In the span of nine minutes, Lewandowski set numerous records – including the fastest Bundesliga hat-trick, fastest four-goal haul and fastest five-goal haul. He also became the first substitute to score five goals in the Bundesliga.

Of course, it wasn’t his first hat-trick ever. We all remember that semi-final where Borussia Dortmund put Real Madrid away with a 4-1 scoreline in the first leg? How many did Lewandowski score then? All four!