Indeed, even with two objectives, Robert Lewandowski actually couldn't prevent Poland from clearing out at the European Championship.
The FIFA player of the year offered peace for a surprising early triple miss by scoring twice in the second half on Wednesday, however Viktor Claesson got the triumphant objective in stoppage time to give Sweden a 3-2 triumph.
Emil Forsberg scored twice for the Swedes, which finish in the lead position in Group E and will next face a third-place finisher in Glasgow on Tuesday.
For Poland and Lewandowski, it's another early exit from a significant football competition.
The Bayern Munich striker leaves Euro 2020 with three objectives, his best take at a World Cup or European Championship. However, even his twofold against Sweden — in the 61st and 84th minutes — may be eclipsed by an unprecedented grouping of occasions in the primary half when he headed the ball against the crossbar twice in as numerous seconds.
After the subsequent one, the ball arrived at the striker's feet before objective yet it got trapped in the middle of his legs he actually couldn't score.
There were wheezes, and surprisingly a few giggles, inside the Saint Petersburg Stadium as replays were displayed on the huge screens.
Forsberg had effectively scored by then, at that point, following 81 seconds for the second speediest objective in the competition's set of experiences. He added a second in the 59th on a counterattack.
Poland required a success to progress, yet they couldn't hang on for the draw after Claesson broke free for the last objective somewhat recently.
That lifted Sweden back above Spain, which was facilitating to a 5-0 success over Slovakia in a match being played at the same time. Spain would have completed first in the gathering notwithstanding Claesson's objective.
It is greater dissatisfaction at worldwide level for Lewandowski, who was falling off a record-breaking year at Bayern in the wake of scoring 41 objectives in a solitary Bundesliga season. He has moved into third spot, behind just Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, for objectives scored in the Champions League, and now has 69 objectives for his country.
Yet, it appears he will simply need to make due with being a title-victor at club level. In four appearances at a significant competition with Poland, Lewandowski has left from the gathering stage multiple times.
He is currently 32, with maybe just two significant worldwide competitions left in him — if Poland qualifies.
Like Lewandowski, Forsberg presently has three objectives at Euro 2020 and has the pleasure of scoring the fastest objective in the current year's competition.
Just Russia player Dmitry Kirichenko — in 2004 against Greece — has scored a quicker objective than Forsberg, who gathered a bobbing ball from Alexander Isak's hindered shot and changed over a low, left-footed completion.
The winger put Sweden ahead 2-0 by twisting in a low shot toward the finish of a counterattack drove by substitute Dejan Kulusevski.
Looking to offer reparations, Lewandowski practically without any assistance took Poland back to the game.
He ran onto a pass, cut inside, and twisted a wonderful completion into the top corner for his first objective. He then, at that point gathered a cross from the left that was missed by the Sweden guard and showed quiet to sidefoot into the corner.
One more would have finished a noteworthy story of recovery for the striker after his initial misses.
However, it was Claesson, not Lewandowski, with the last say.
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