Karim Benzema arrived this weekend without scoring goals in the last five Real Madrid games in which he participated, between the Champions League and the Spanish League. In fact, Karim Benzema arrived this weekend without scoring since the end of August, almost two months ago, in no competition. This weekend, however, was not just any weekend: and Karim Benzema entered the pitch at the Santiago Bernabéu with the certainty of that.
Against Barcelona, in the first The classic of the season, Benzema opened the scoring taking advantage of an incomplete defense by Ter Stegen and showed that, on important days, he continues to be Real Madrid’s family allowance. More than that, he almost got the idea that Benzema remembered that this Monday was the day of the Ballon d’Or — and wanted to remind the world of football that there was no other alternative than himself when it came to awarding the award to the best player of last season.
At the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, Karim Benzema was crowned the best player in the world. In a year in which Lionel Messi was not even nominated and in which Cristiano Ronaldo was 20th, losing the status of best Portuguese to Rafael Leão, the Real Madrid player reached the highest step of his career two months before his 35th birthday. The world never cared about him; Now the world is yours.
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Source: Observadora
