Karim Benzema Follow in the footsteps of Lionel Messi in the Champions League

DBasia.news –  When hosting Galatasaray, Thursday (11/07/2019) AM, a 6-0 victory was obtained by Real Madrid. This has its own significance for Karim Benzema. Thanks to a score of two goals in the match, he managed to match the footsteps of Lionel Messi in the Champions League.

Karim Benzema scored in the 45th and 81st minutes. The two goals gave Los Blancos a 5-0 lead. When the match entered injury time, he gave an assist which led Rodrygo to score a hat-trick in the match as well as making his team win 6-0.

The success of breaking Galatasaray’s goal maintained by Fernando Muslera on Matchday IV has made Karim Benzema score in 15 consecutive seasons in the Champions League. He matched the footsteps of Lionel Messi who carved the record on Matchday III against Slavia Prague.

Since the 2005-06 season, the 31-year-old striker has never failed to score in the Champions League event. At least one goal was won by the French player every season. The highest score was 7 goals in the 2011-12 season.

An additional two goals in the match between Real Madrid vs Galatasaray has made Karim Benzema now collect 62 goals in 116 matches. A total of 50 goals were scored from the 2009-10 season with Real Madrid. The 12 goals were made while still defending Olympique Lyon.

Karim Benzema is now ranked 4th on the all-time top scorer list in the Champions League. Only Cristiano Ronaldo (127 goals), Lionel Messi (113 goals) and Raul Gonzalez (71 goals) who were sharper than the player who was ousted by Didier Deschamps from the French squad.