Benzema's impressive scoring streak that propelled him to the Ballon d'Or

With each presentation, Karim Benzema confirms his spectacular state of form. The Tuesday, the French added a new doublet in Champions in front of the Manchester City that allowed him to the Real Madrid 'maquillar' the defeat in the Etihad Stadium (4-3) and leave opened an eliminatory that they will have to define in Santiago Bernabéu the next week. For the time being, the '9' of the white group confirms like the centrodelantero in better moment in Europe and, for many, the best of the world an principal candidate to win the 2022 Ballon d'Or.

In Manchester, the one of Lyon resorted to his inagotables technical resources to invent the first goal 'merengue', when the goleada of the 'citizens' seemed when falling. Ferland Mendy Hanged a centre to the area to half height and Karim devised them to him to take out a finish of half volley in front of the mark of Oleksandr Zinchenko. The balloon hammered and put just between the legs of the Russian side to win to Ederson. A golazo that revived to the Madrid.

In the second time, the Frenchman converted a penalti conceded by Laporte after a hand inside the area. Benzema Came to fail two maximum penalties in the party in front of Osasuna the Wednesday happened in Pamplona (1-3) and this time did not shiver him the pulse to ensure his collection to the 'Panenka'; a so much that put definite figures to the marker when the City seemed directed to round the goleada. In this Champions, the white captain always appears when more needs him .

Of this way, Karim arrived to 41 goals in 41 parties in the season, a statistics that only four players had been able to attain in the Madrid: Ferenc Puskás, Alfredo Gave Stéfano, Hugo Sánchez and Cristiano Ronaldo. The Portuguese annotated 61 goals in 54 parties in the 2014-15, his best season in Spain and last campaign of Carlo Ancelotti in the white bench before returning in the summer of 2021.

Benzema, the total captain

To the Real Madrid suffices him a tie the Saturday home in front of the Espanyol to be champion of LaLiga, a tournament in which Benzema is 'pichichi' with 25 goals and 11 assistances in 29 parties. In the Champions, the 'white House' could return to the final of the tournament if they win the next week to the Manchester City by two goals of difference. For the moment, the French adds 14 goals and 1 assistance in 10 parties. 9 of these so many has achieved them of eighth of final from now on: three in front of Paris Saint-Germain, four in front of Chelsea and, for now, two in front of the City. The Madrid 2021-22 is Benzema and ten more.