Real Madrid: Carlo Ancelotti recognizes a "Benzema dependency" and fully assumes it

He is not shy about it.

Carlo Ancelotti knows that this season his team is dependent on Karim Benzema.

In a press conference, the Real Madrid coach was even proud of it: “To say that we are dependent on Benzema is true, we must not hide it.

I am very happy to be dependent on Benzema”.

This season, the Frenchman has scored 37 goals in 37 games and delivered 13 assists.

He is one of the great architects of the great season for Real Madrid, leader of La Liga and on track to qualify for the semi-finals of the Champions League after his victory in the quarter-final first leg against Chelsea (3-1).

The French international (94 caps, 36 goals) remains on two consecutive hat-tricks in the competition, against Chelsea in the first leg (3-1) and against Paris Saint-Germain in the round of 16 (1-0, 1-3).

A strong dependence that prompted a journalist to ask him if given the importance and the results of Benzema, he would advise Erling Haaland to join Real Madrid.

And obviously, Ancelotti was not very comfortable.

He ended up evading the question by praising his attacking star for the umpteenth time.

“What I can say is that before, the perfect center forward was the one who placed himself in the box, and tried to recover the crosses or all the balls which passed in this area.

Karim does what a modern centre-forward should do now, which is to score, but also to help the team, to do defensive work.

It is the perfect representation of what a center forward in modern football should be for me, ”he said.

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The Italian coach even compared the association between the Frenchman and the Brazilian Vinicius Jr this year to another legendary Madrid duo.

“This season, two strikers have stood out a lot, Vinicius and Benzema.

In the past, we had Cristiano, Bale … ​​”he breathed, on the eve of a crucial Champions League quarter-final second leg against Chelsea.

The opportunity, perhaps, for Karim Benzema, to write a little more of his legend at Real.