“Breaking the Hearts of the Blues”
Only Lewandowski scores more often than Benzema
04/13/2022, 3:47 p.m
“Unreal” is the performance of Karim Benzema at Real Madrid. In the Champions League he scores more goals than superstars Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi combined. He can also overtake the Bayern striker Robert Lewandowski, who has now been eliminated. Chelsea suffered from him.
The London tabloid “Daily Mirror” summed up Karim Benzema’s spectacular performance in the Champions League again. “Benzema breaks the hearts of the Blues,” headlined the tabloid, punting the Real Madrid striker’s performance as “unreal.”
The Frenchman had already scored all three goals in the 3-1 first-leg win of the royal team at cup holders Chelsea. Now the 34-year-old managed to score in extra time to make it 2:3 (1:3, 0:1) – a defeat that gave the Madrilenians a place in the semi-finals.
This time Benzema did not want to speak, a week ago at Stamford Bridge the international had outlined his feelings: “I don’t play football to be the best in the world, I play for nights like this.”
Great work doesn’t protect you from lawsuits
Benzema has already scored twelve goals in nine Champions League appearances this season. More than Lionel Messi (5) and Cristiano Ronaldo (6) before their respective exits with Paris St Germain and Manchester United combined. Only Robert Lewandowski from FC Bayern has one more goal. But for Benzema, who is considered by some experts to be at least on a par with the Polish world footballer, the competition, unlike his rivals, is not over yet.
However: The biggest challenge of this season is Benzema, who has been under contract with Real for almost 13 years: On June 30th, the appeal hearing in the so-called sex video affair begins in Versailles. In the first instance, the striker was sentenced to one year’s suspended prison sentence and a fine of 75,000 euros for aiding and abetting the attempted extortion of his former national team colleague Mathieu Valbuena.