Karim Benzema did magic at the RCDE Stadium. The Frenchman controlled a ball in the parrot area and, with a sublime gesture, served as a heel for Casemiro so that the Brazilian could define with pleasure before his former teammate Diego López and thus giving the victory and the leadership of LaLiga to Real Madrid.
The Frenchman left one of the best details of his already excellent career to expand the compilation of highlights and also return to be the cover of L'Equipe. “What a heel!” headlines the French newspaper on its cover whose main image is the technical gesture of the white nine. With his name in bold and capital letters, adds L'Equipe: “Thanks to the inspiration of KARIM BENZEMA, with a decisive pass to Casemiro, Real Madrid takes the lead in LaLiga after defeating Espanyol and Barça's lost points in Vigo, “they explain. On the 11th, he also appeared in the first of this French sports newspaper along with other compatriots like Griezmann or Fekir on the occasion of the restart of LaLiga.
In the Movistar Plus microphones, Benzema himself tried to do something that a magician would never do: unravel the trick, how it occurred to him to make that pass for Casemiro. “It was a good move, but the most important thing is the goal afterwards. The assist is fine, but Casemiro gets it right. For me that is football. It's like poof, things come out. I see football like this. I had not seen Casemiro, but I knew he was coming from behind me, “explained the French striker.
Since Cristiano Ronaldo's departure, Karim Benzema has become the reference of Real Madrid. This season he has 22 goals and has distributed up to ten more in 41 games.