Can Lewandowski break Gerd Muller's Bundesliga goals record?

Robert Lewandowski is currently unstoppable.

Nine Bundesliga teams have tried and failed to keep him out so far this season with the striker finding the back of the net in every single league appearance he has made this season.

It is not just Germany's teams who are struggling though. The 31-year-old has also scored in every competitive game in the Champions League and German Cup this season, making a total of 19 goals in 15 games.

Lewandowski reached new ground last week by becoming the first Bundesliga player to score in the first nine games of a season, beating the previous best of eight set by Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.

However, his phenomenal form has left him eyeing one of the very few scoring records he is yet to overcome - the most goals scored in a single Bundesliga season.

The great Gerd Muller possess that honour after he plundered 40 goals in 1971-72 and nobody has come close since. Aubameyang hit 31 in 2016-17 and Lewandowski's best attempt so far was 30 in 2015-16 but the Pole is now threatening to go past 40.

When Muller set that ridiculous tally, also playing for Bayern, he had just three goals after his first nine matches of the season. Thirty-seven of the remaining tally arrived from his tenth match of the season onward.

His magnificent displays that campaign saw him score four hat-tricks, one four-goal haul and one five-goal haul as Bayern lifted the Bundesliga title.

Muller also missed three penalties, so you can imagine how hard the task of beating him really is.

But Lewandowski is firmly on pace to do exactly that. At present he is averaging 1.44 goals per game after nine matches.

If that rate continues he will finish the campaign with a staggering 49 league goals, not only beating Muller's record but crushing it.

When asked about Muller's record after Bayern's win over Paderborn on September 28, the Pole said: 'It's too early. It's great to be scoring, and I hope I can keep it up. Then we'll see.'

Lewandowski is still a long way off overtaking Muller as the top goalscorer in Bundesliga history but for now he'll just settle for reaching that 41-goal mark by the end of this season.