Benzema, head of gold

Benzema not only has the head to come up with plays that practically only occur to him, he also uses it to finish them. With Madrid seeing an angry Athletic despite being at a disadvantage, the Frenchman reappeared from the skies to lower the heart rate of an angry Zidane and unblock a problem. He made it 2-1 with a head, his third target with the head in the last three games (He did a double in this way to Mönchengladbach just a week ago) and is reluctant to remove the traces of Santillana that has been exhibiting the Teutonic team since that 2-0.

It is Benzema's 28th goal with a header since he played in LaLiga and There are only four active footballers who surpass him: Cristiano (52), Fernando Llorente (42), Sergio Ramos (39) and Stuani (29). A record that joins the week in which he has made history with the white jersey being the foreigner with the most matches with the white jersey, with Athletic's he has raised it to 529 matches, he adds and continues.

Benzema has obviously sharpened his head. These four goals in this way of the ten that he carries account for 40 percent of his goals and he has already equaled the number of headed goals he made in all of last season and they are more than in six more courses since he arrived at Madrid (he only surpassed four goals with the head in 2013-14, with six, in 2015-16, another six, and 2018-19, with 11 that is his record). That 40% of goals based on headers represents a spectacular increase in relation to its historical average. In his professional career, with Olympique Lyonnais and now Madrid, his header goals account for just 15 percent of those he has made. In fact, there are 49 by this method. The next one who scores with a header will make the official fifty. Banished it seems that forever her shyness when trying to dominate the area, Benzema's head has become that of a striker proper.

Karim is “the best”

Álvaro Benito commented on it in Carrusel. “You have to praise how he has improved, how he now attacks spaces, always looking for the back of the second center-back”. Zidane, after the game, returned to expand his endless collection of praise to Karim, in a week in which he has been especially affectionate with him. “Karim is the best,” he insisted again yesterday. Benzema has become a total attacker and is now going headlong, pun intended, for the Pichichi. He is in the middle of a fight with Oyarzábal (seven goals), tied with Aspas and leads Luis Suárez and Messi (five) by one …