If the coronation of Karim Benzema in front of an audience of international stars Monday evening at the Châtelet theater goes far beyond the framework of the figures, it is difficult to ignore some of them as they are monstrous.
And testify to the 2021-2022 XXL season of the 34-year-old Frenchman who joins the prestigious line of Raymond Kopa (1958), Michel Platini (1983-1984-1985), Jean-Pierre Papin (1991) and Zinédine Zidane (1998).
Let's start already on the list of winners for the best footballer in the world today, already elected UEFA player last August.
To his credit, a fifth Champions League, La Liga and the Spanish Super Cup with Real Madrid or the Nations League in October 2021 in the jersey of the France team.
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Karim Benzema against Paris SG in the round of 16 second leg of the Panoramic Champions League
He walked on PSG, Chelsea and Manchester City in the Champions League
In this orgy of titles, it is impossible to ignore the weight of the native of Bron in the successes of Real Madrid.
On his own, or almost (Courtois was also monstrous), he carried his team and showed the way.
Paris SG still remember their hat-trick in 17 minutes in the round of 16 second leg of the C1, just like the Chelsea Blues with another hat-trick in the quarter-final first leg and what about their three goals in two confrontations against Manchester City to validate the ticket in the final where he finally remained silent at the Stade de France against Liverpool.
With ten goals in ax matches (Only Cristiano Ronaldo in 2016/17 has scored as many goals in the knockout stage of the same Champions League campaign as Karim Benzema in 2021/22), fifteen in all in the Champions League campaign Champions League,
Karim Benzema was logically top scorer in the biggest competition.
By sometimes walking on what is best in the world.
Colossal.
Ditto in La Liga with the title of
pichichi
thanks to his twenty-seven achievements.
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Thanks to Benzema, France and Real Madrid rejoin Germany, Italy and FC Barcelona
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With his Ballon d'Or, the 66th in history, Karim Benzema allows Real Madrid to be the club most often rewarded, with rival FC Barcelona, at the level of the winners.
Twelve each.
The same for France, which is equal to Italy (Cannavaro, Baggio, Rossi, Rivera, Sivori) and Germany (Sammer, Matthaus, Rummenigge, Beckenbauer, Muller) in the number of victories in history.
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On a personal level, the former Lyonnais is overtaken by Robert Lewandowski in the number of goals scored in all competitions (44 against 50 for the Pole), just like by Kylian Mbappé in the involvement (goals + assists) over the full season ( 60 for the Parisian with 39 goals + 21 assists, 59 for the Madrid native, 44 goals and 15 assists).
Compared to the top names Sadio Mané (2nd in the standings) or even Mohamed Salah, Robert Lewandowski, Kylian Mbappé and Erling Haaland, Karim Benzema is also ahead of them in many statistics.
He is the one who has been the most decisive with a ratio reduced to 66 minutes.
In C1, he is the one who shot the most on goal (46 against 43 for Salah), with the most shots on target (23 against 22 for the Egyptian), or even the player most involved in sequences ending in a goal (17 against 15 to Vinicius and Lewandowski).
In the end, he will have scored 50 goals (club + selections) over the 2021-2022 financial year.
Monstrous numbers.
Who say, a lot of Karim Benzema's imprint on a historic season.
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