DBasia.news – For 10 years or a decade strengthening Real Madrid, Karim Benzema has become a loyal fighter for the club and played with the attackers who alternated in and out of Madrid.
Raul Gonzales, Gonzalo Higuain, Emmanuel Adebayor, Javier Hernandez, Cristiano Ronaldo, are some of the attackers who have played with Benzema. Now, the former Olympique Lyonnais striker was overlaid by Mariano Diaz.
He is no longer young and reportedly, Madrid are looking for an attacker to become Benzema’s successor. The 21-year-old striker Eintracht Frankfurt, Luka Jovic, was the target of Madrid’s transfer with PSG bomber (Paris Saint-Germain), Kylian Mbappe.
Zinedine Zidane’s side may target new attackers for the next season, especially in fulfilling volume III of the Los Galacticos project. But the question is, will they come to Madrid?
Chance to strengthen the team caliber of Madrid is indeed difficult to reject the top European players. Even so, they might think twice about coming to Madrid knowing the fact that Benzema was irreplaceable in Madrid’s starting line-up.
It’s no secret if Zidane really likes the style of playing Benzema with his type as a regulator of attacks in the attacker’s position. Benzema was not replaced as the spearhead of Madrid because of his sharpness in scoring goals, plus his ability to involve himself in the team’s attack process.
Players born in Lyon, December 19, 1987, often dropped away from the area of 16 meters to pick up the ball and drain the attack of Madrid. The role is still in this season, although his health tandem, Ronaldo, has moved to Juventus.
Without Ronaldo, Benzema is even sharper with Madrid this season. Through the statistics listed Madrid’s official website, Benzema has scored a total of 30 goals from 50 matches in all competitions.
His latest three goals were born from the first recorded goal hat-trick, since 2015, when Madrid won 3-0 over Athletic Club Bilbao in LaLiga. The number of 50 matches made him the first Madrid player to reach that number.
Benzema has only missed two matches this season – in the Copa del Rey second leg against Melilla and Leganes. No teammate can record the same achievement. Nearby, there are only Luka Modric (43 appearances), Sergio Ramos, and Lucas Vazquez (42 appearances).
Not only scored a lot of goals, made the most appearances, Benzema also gave seven assists – equal to Vinicius Junior – and under an assist from Modric. The meaning of the statistics is: Madrid still relies heavily on Benzema.
“Benzema is not worried about playing as a single striker or with someone by his side. He is doing very well and is undergoing his best season,” Zidane said about Benzema.
Judging by the figure of Benzema who is still very reliable on the front lines, it is quite small because the new central striker will come next season to Madrid. Zidane allegedly would only rely on Mariano as a coating with loan strikers such as Borja Mayoral and Raul de Tomas.