Karim Benzemawith 42 goals in 42 official games this season, will go for Ballon d’Or 2021-22the prestigious award given by ‘france football’ and that from this next edition there will be great new things whose merits will be judged throughout the football season and not the calendar year as has been the case till now. Other data to consider is that individual merits take precedence over collective merits and only representatives of the top 100 announcements will vote. FIFA rankings.
Benzema, At 34 years old, he is experiencing the best marking moments of his career and aspires to finally fulfill his golden dream. In the regular tournament, which has only four days left to close the curtain, the Frenchman has scored 26 goals and eleven leads the chasing trio consisting of Iago Aspas (Celtic), Enes Ünal (Getafe) and Raúl de Tomás (Spanish)while in the Champions League he amassed 14, more than six Mohammed Salah | (Liverpool)who didn’t score last night Villarreal sa Ceramicsin the ‘semis’ round.
Benzema It was placed in the first position of the table by its top directors Champions thanks to a brace on the first leg of the semi-finals of real Madrid in the field of City of Manchester and, after his sentence to ‘Panenka’, reached 14 goals in this edition, one more than the Bayern striker, Robert Lewandowskino longer in the tournament after being eliminated against Villarreal, as third in the ranking, sebastien haller (Ajax), with 11 goals to his credit. fourth is the ‘Pharaoh’ Wrongauthor of 8 points.
Benzema’s last goal in the league was against the Spanish
To take the witness of his compatriot Sauzée
The last French footballer to finish top scorer in Champions This is Franck Sauzee almost 30 years ago (1992-93), when he was a member of the set Olympic Marseille (champion of that edition after winning the final in Munichl Milan 1-0 with a goal from basil boli), although he did so with only five goals recorded. The best score in the highest continental competition was held by the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo with 17, those marked by real Madrid in the 2013-14 season.
CR7 He also scored 16 (2015-16) and 15 (2017-18) with the merengue team, a figure only reached by Lewandowski in 2019-20. it is in his hand Karimwhere madridismo puts all its hopes on getting back this Wednesday, in the semi-final second leg of the Champions League against city within Bernabeu after 4-3 at the Etihad. Before ‘citizen’, Benzema will play in his 602nd against white, beat Ferdinand Iron. at the back Raúl, Iker Casillas, Manolo Sanchís, Sergio Ramos and Santillana.
With 26 goals after 30 games played, Benzema he is also the virtual ‘top scorer’ of LaLiga 2021-22who became the first French player to finish a league season as the top scorer in the history of the competition.
the march of Cristiano Ronaldo of Real Madrid in the 2017-18 season was an empty scorer in the white team ranks, but Benzema took over the Portuguese and scored at least 21 goals in the last four seasons The leaguesomething he has only achieved twice in his past nine seasons in competition.
In addition, the French are the fifth player of the real Madrid ending as LaLiga’s top director in the 21st century afterwards Raul Gonzalez (24 in 2000-01), Ronaldo Nazario (24 in 2003-04), Ruud van Nistelrooy (25 in 2006-07) and Cristiano Ronaldo (three times: 40 in 2010-11, 31 in 2013-14 and 48 in 2014-15).
The French striker has become the main pillar of real Madrid to get the title LaLiga 2021-22. Not surprisingly, the man from Lyon participated in 37 of his team’s 73 goals in the competition, scoring 26 and assisting 11 (50.7%).
Two goals away to equal Raúl’s 323
The growth of the figure Benzema This can be seen in the club’s historical records. Of his 42 goals this season, he first surpassed 290 Charles Santillanalater the 308 of Alfredo di Stefano and one step away from being Madrid’s second top scorer, missing two goals in 323 Raul Gonzalez. The roof marks it Cristiano Ronaldo with 450.
Top scorers in the Champions League (from group stage to final)
2020/21: Erling Haaland (Dortmund) 10
2019/20: Robert Lewandowski (Bayern) 15
2018/19: Lionel Messi (Barcelona) 12
2017/18: Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) 15
2016/17: Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) 12
2015/16: Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) 16
2014/15: Lionel Messi (Barcelona), Neymar (Barcelona), Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) 10
2013/14: Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) 17
2012/13: Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) 12
2011/12: Lionel Messi (Barcelona) 14
2010/11: Lionel Messi (Barcelona) 12
2009/10: Lionel Messi (Barcelona) 8
2008/09: Lionel Messi (Barcelona) 9
2007/08: Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United) 8
2006/07: Kaka (AC Milan) 10
2005/06: Andriy Shevchenko (AC Milan) 9
2004/05: Ruud van Nistelrooy (Manchester United) 8
2003/04: Fernando Morientes (Monaco) 9
2002/03: Ruud van Nistelrooy (Manchester United) 12
2001/02: Ruud van Nistelrooy (Manchester United) 10
2000/01: Raul Gonzalez (Real Madrid) 7
1999/00: Mario Jardel (Porto), Rivaldo (Barcelona), Raul Gonzalez (Real Madrid) 10
1998/99: Andriy Shevchenko (Dynamo Kyiv), Dwight Yorke (Manchester United) 8
1997/98: Alessandro Del Piero (Juventus) 10
1996/97: Milinko Pantić (Atletico Madrid) 5
1995/96: Jari Litmanen (Ajax) 9
1994/95: George Weah (Paris Saint-Germain) 7
1993/94: Hristo Stoichkov (Barcelona) 5
1992/93: Franck Sauzée (Marseille) 5
Source: La Verdad
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