Benzema and Vinicius: the couple from Europe

Madrid enjoy an unparalleled duo in attack. Haaland and Lewandowski are two goal monsters who fight in Germany a long-distance battle for the Golden Boot. Each of them has scored seven goals. But, as Di Stéfano said, no player is as good as everyone put together. And together, in the five major European leagues there is no such decisive couple as the society formed by Benzema and Vinicius. They lag behind the two Bundesliga scorers, with six and five goals respectively. But If we combine that data with the number of assists, the sum (17) triggers both of them. The Frenchman has participated in eleven goals (five assists) and Vinicius in six (a goal pass). No other duo in Europe reaches those numbers. No other team in our league has scored as many goals (11) as the two of them together. And to those goals and assists we must add the penalty caused by Vini against Celta, which Karim transformed.

Mestalla was the synthesis of the start of the season for both. The tying goal was Vinicius with Benzema at the service. The one that gave the victory to Ancelotti's men, culminated by the Frenchman at the center of the Brazilian. Far is the controversy that both starred less than a year ago in the dressing room tunnel in Mönchengladbach. Now not only are they not avoided, but they are sought: 6 of Madrid's 16 goals this season have had both involved. Vinicius has scored three assisted by Benzema; the international bleu he has done two to pass the carioca. The sixth, the penalty against Celta. Only three of the Madrid goals have not had the participation of one or the other: 0-2 in Vitoria (Nacho's work after Modric's pass), Camavinga's against Celta and Rodrygo's against Inter (after the French midfielder).

To find the second most lethal pair in the leagues of the continent there is a quadruple tie. Lewandowski is supported at Bayern by Kimmich, who has two goals and three assists. Between them they add influence in 12 goals in the Bundesliga. The Pole, apart, has scored a double in the German Super Cup and another in the Champions League. Haaland is still looking for a stable partner at Dortmund. Nobody in the Rhenish dressing room comes close to his seven goals (to which he adds three in the Cup and another in the Champions League) and three assists. He has five different teammates who have participated in two goals as authors and / or assistants.

PSG and West Ham have more balanced pairs. In the Parisian group Mbappé leads the singing voice with four goals and three assists. Curiously, his partner is not another member of the trident, but Ander Herrera, who scores three goals and two passes on goal. The Parisian goal in the Champions League was manufactured between them: the Spanish scored a pass from the long-awaited Madrid signing. The representatives of the Premier are hammers. Michail Antonio has four goals and three assists and Said Benrahma has three and two respectively.