WARSAW: Bayern Munich striker Robert Lewandowski says he is prepared to do the ‘donkey work’ for Poland as team captain at the World Cup, as he plots a strategy to put his country on top of Group H.“I know that sometimes I’ll have to do the donkey work for the good of the team,” the 29-year-old Bundesliga star said in an interview posted to Poland’s Wirtualna Polska news website on Friday. With 16 goals in ten appearances on the road to Russia, Lewandowski was the top scorer in Europe’s 2018 World Cup qualifiers as Poland, currently ranked 10th in the world, finished top of their group. That’s how it was in France,” Lewandowski said, referring to Euro 2016 where Poland lost to eventual champions Portugal in the quarter-finals on penalties. The good of the team is always the most important,” he said, after telling reporters earlier this week that he “was not thinking about club matters.”“That’s what my manager is for,” added Lewandowski who is nicknamed “Lewy“, or “Leftie“, in Poland. Poland are headed to Russia with a burning desire to improve on their third-place finishes at the 1974 and 1982 finals.

Source: New Strait Times June 01, 2018 18:00 UTC