The landing of Karim Benzema in Saudi Arabia goes from bad to worse and the final defeat (5-2) match Cristiano Ronaldo’s Al-Nassr has certainly burst the French bubble, which is heavily criticized.
The former Real Madrid player packed his bags last summer to sign for the club. Al-Ittihad in a contract 100 million euros per season, thus becoming, along with CR7, the big star of the Saudi Pro League. However, the French did not meet the expectations placed on him and after losing to Al-Nassr the team is 22 points behind leaders Al-Hilal after just 18 games.
Everything started to go wrong Benzema had an argument with Nuno Espirito Santor, the one who is his coach, and from there things are not turned around, quite the opposite. Although he has 9 goals and 5 assists in 15 gamesapparently the followers of Al-Ittihad They took it from him and according to L’Equipe He got the nickname “Ben-Hazima”, which in Arabic translates as “the son of defeat.”
While last season the team only lost four games, so far they have lost six this year and the focus is on Benzema to an extent that they started criticizing him a lot after the boos in the Al-Nassr match. So also The Frenchman decided to close his Instagram account as soon as the match ended in a lossand Karim’s situation in Saudi Arabia is far from what he expected when he signed as the new 2022 Ballon d’Or winner.
Source: La Verdad
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