Author of an exceptional season under the jersey of Real Madrid, Karim Benzema receives every week deserved praise from his coach Zinédine Zidane.
Decisive against Atalanta Bergamo in the Champions League on Tuesday, the Frenchman once again flew over the debates this Saturday on the lawn of Celta Vigo.
With a double and an assist, the former Lyonnais brought the Merengue to a new victory (3-1) which temporarily brings them three points behind the leader and rival of Atlético Madrid.
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"I don't understand it and a lot of people don't understand it"
Zinedine Zidane
Dithyrambic, as often, on Benzema at a press conference, Zinédine Zidane went a little further on Saturday, admitting his incomprehension about the repeated absence of his No. 9 in the France team.
"How to understand that it does not go in selection?
You do not understand it (speaking to a journalist), I do not understand it and a lot of people do not understand it ", entrusted the world champion 98." But hey, for me who coach of Real Madrid , it's better if he stays with us (during the international break).
What he did today (Saturday), again, is spectacular.
I'm happy, he's a hard worker, he always wants more, ”added ZZ.
33-year-old Karim Benzema has not worn the France team jersey since October 8, 2015 and a friendly match against Armenia in Nice (4-0).
Dismissed from the Blues because of his alleged involvement in the sextape blackmail case suffered by his former teammate Mathieu Valbuena, the Madrilenian had played neither Euro 2016 nor the 2018 World Cup. Unsurprisingly, Didier Deschamps, who has never digested the words of the player made in Marca in May 2016 - "Deschamps gave in under the pressure of a racist part of France" -, did not call him for the next three matches against Ukraine (March 24 at Stade de France, 8:45 p.m.), Kazakhstan-France (March 28, 3 p.m.) and Bosnia-Herzegovina (March 31, 8:45 p.m.).
If the subject was not discussed during Thursday's press conference at the headquarters of the FFF, the coach may not have expected to see his former teammate throw a stone in his garden.
The question will undoubtedly be asked, Monday in Clairefontaine during the first day of the gathering of the Blues.
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