Karim Benzema He entered a long time ago in that dimension in which he only rubs shoulders with myths. He surpassed in the table of scorers of Real Madrid to Puskas, Santillana or Di Stéfanoand is about to hunt down Raul. In the list of historical of the white club adds a new notch tonight in Manchester. He will play his 600th game with Real Madrid, a round and stratospheric figure, which allows him to hunt down another totem in Madrid history, Paco peoplethe Cantabrian Galerna, recently deceased.
As honorary president of Madrid, Gento enjoyed Benzema’s maturity, the French striker’s enormous leap in the last four years, in which he has emerged as the team’s offensive beacon. In this course add 39 goals in 40 games, a tally that could be higher if he hadn’t missed some occasions as clear as those offered by penalty shots. But there is no room for reproaching Karim, since Madrid’s presence in the European Cup semi-finals is largely due to him. Three goals from the French striker saved Madrid in a situation of maximum emergency for the team against PSG from Mbappe. In the next game, in London against Chelsea, another hat-trick to knock down Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, laying the foundations for the pass to the semifinals that still had to be sweated out in Madrid. Chelsea brushed the comeback in Chamartinbut Benzema appeared again to head in the goal that certified the umpteenth madridista resurrection it’s from the season.
With four Champions Behind his back, Karim pursues a fifth conquest that would once again place him very close to people, the absolute record holder of the European Cup, which he won six times between 1956 and 1966. Karim, at 34, could still hunt down La Galerna, but to do so he needs two perfect seasons: the current one, in which Madrid He has almost won the League and is two games away from a new final, and the one to come, in which nobody disputes his importance in the team. The possible arrivals of Mbappe or even Haland Today they do not seem to be definitive threats for Madrid’s ‘9’, who has earned his status on the pitch. Not only with goals, but with stripes (usual captain before the secondary role of Marcelo), hierarchy, influence in increasingly larger areas of the field and unquestionable importance in the good performance of Madrid in this exercise.
At this point, after liquidating the legion of critics who scrutinized his first years as a Madrid player, Benzema continues to consolidate his presence in the gallery of illustrious names of the club he arrived at in 2009, when he was just a teenager, and who has seen him grow up to become an undisputed idol. That shy young man who came from Bron enters the dimension of Galerna.
