With his penalty goal this Wednesday against Manchester City at the Bernabeu Karim Benzema adds 15 goals in the competition, in 11 games, two of the historical record that he scored Cristiano Ronaldo in the 2013-14 season and that seemed unattainable, until the French striker appeared to make an extraordinary campaign. Besides, Karim He matched CR7 as the top scorer in the qualifying rounds with 10 goals, like the ones the Portuguese did in the 2016-17 campaign.
43 goals in the 43 games he has played, with ten of them in the last five and even so, Benzema stands out above all his performance in the Champions League games at home. Three goals against Paris Saint-Germain to turn around the round of 16, another against Chelsea to certify the comeback, just like this Wednesday against Manchester City to put to real Madrid at the end of Paris which will be held on May 28.
Data that increase his legend in the white team and that make him have a shot at being the second top scorer in the club’s history, since he is only one of the 323 scored by Raul Gonzalez Blanco.
An ease in scoring in the top continental club competition in which he was accompanied by an unexpected actor, due to his lesser participation as a starter in the current campaign, but Rodrygo Goes has a love affair with Champions which escapes the logic, but is reflected in the data.
The attacker has more goals (ten) in Europe that in the games of LaLiga Santander (six), and that has played 26 in the European competition and 70 in the domestic one.
In addition, he has embodied the role of revulsive like no one else this campaign in the real Madrid. In the quarterfinals against Chelsea and after 1-3 in the first leg, the white team lost 0-3, and thanks, and was eliminated from the Championsuntil Rodrygo appeared making a good pass with the outside, a house mark, from the Croatian Luka modric.
Thus, he forced an extension Benzema was in charge of solving, a ‘dejavu’ of what was experienced this Wednesday in the Santiago Bernabeualbeit with even greater difficulty.
The Manchester City won 0-1 in the madridista fiefdom and had forgiven up to two clear chances to double the advantage, it seemed that the magic was not going to repeat itself for the third time, but Rodrygo he thought the opposite.
Two goals in two minutes, 90 and 91 to drive his fans and the players to delirium, who came back to life in a tie when he seemed dead again, but the coffin was not nailed down properly.
The real Madrid will play the final of the Champions on Saturday May 28 on a path they made on the back of the goals of Benzema Y Rodrygo and three knockout second legs in the Santiago Bernabeu that after a year and a half closed to the public due to the pandemic coronavirus and because of the works -which are still going on- he will remember as historical the nights lived in the Paseo de la Castellana.
Top scorers Champions 2021-22
With 15 goals: Karim Benzema (FRA) (3p) (Real Madrid).
With 13: Robert Lewandowski (POL) (3p) (Bayern Munich).
With 11: Sebastian Haller (CIV) (1p) (Ajax).
With 8: Mohamed Salah (EGY) (1p) (Liverpool)
With 7: Christopher Nkunku (FRA) (Leipzig); Riyad Mahrez (ALG) (2p) (Manchester City)
With 6: Leroy Sané (ALE) (Bayern Munich); Darwin Núñez (URU) (1p) (Benfica); Cristiano Ronaldo (BY) (Manchester United); Kyliah Mbappe (FRA) (PSG); Arnaut Danjuma (NED) (1p) (Villarreal).
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