Real Madrid defeat Barcelona”>Karim Benzema has been at Real Madrid for over ten years and seems to have reached his best level this season. If he has now become the fatal weapon of the Madrid club, the Frenchman had to fight to obtain this status, seeing year after year new attackers come to try to take his place.
It must be said that number 9 has never seemed to have as much impact as in recent seasons. Anyway, in terms of numbers. A number of goals that seemed to grow since the departure of Cristiano Ronaldo. But while the game rests more on his shoulders now than it did then, Benzema doesn’t regret the time spent alongside Cristiano Ronaldo because that’s where he won the most titles: “NWe won a lot of titles, I really enjoyed myself. To think like that is to think individually. No, it’s the opposite. I won all my Champions Leagues with him, championships. We scored I don’t know how many goals, we were part of the magic trio (with Gareth Bale). There are a lot of very good points and I don’t see any black ones“.
Karim Benzema recognizes all the same that his game had to evolve and that the presence of Ronaldo allowed him to evolve differently on the ground: “When he played at Real Madrid, he scored between 50 and 60 goals a year. So you have to adapt to this reality. He was more attracted than me by the goal. I gave him assists as he gave me. It was like that. When he left, what changed was that it was up to me to take over, to score goals, to make assists for my other team-mates. I’m not going to say that now everything goes through me, but I’m the creator and the finisher. I create the opportunity and I finish it. If I had put a part of me in parentheses? I don’t know, but I knew for a long time that one day or another I would be where I am today. It was just a matter of time“.
Now surrounded by Vinicius and Asensio, it’s up to him to play the leaders and pile up the goals. A role that suits him perfectly. He who already has 17 goals and 7 assists in 20 La Liga games.
