Benzema is inspired by Ramos

TO Benzema he only lacked being blond and having a lumberjack's beard to be Sergio Ramos. Everything else he did as the camero. He ruled the team with the armband, made an infallible penalty-kicker and helped to continue recovering Asensio when he gave him 2-0. Captaincy, what Sergio would say.

He was even brave, like the Andalusian defender. In the last play of the first part he took a strong tap between the collarbone and the cervicals that made him see the stars. He returned to the locker room dizzy. Upon returning, with kinesiotape over the affected area, it was the usual Karim. Roberto took the double and when he had it, was detached: saw that it was Asensio and he gave her the ball almost like an offering of help to continue strengthening the recovery of your partner. Ramos himself saw everything from the stands, where he considered his sanction but celebrated the goals of his teammates as a fan. The contrast with Bale, a few meters below, could not be greater …

The of Asensio was the goal 501 of the Zidane era (207 games as a coach) but the one before that, the one who made the half a thousandit had to be from Benzema, a fetish from Marseille. He nine Madrid will not fight this year for Pichichi either, although his work has been capital at crucial moments, as before the people of Vitoria. Karim, always unflappable but in previous seasons almost reptilian cold-blooded, is another to the point of joking even with the referee, Gil Manzano. Without Ramos, the man who marks the tam-tam of the white rhythm, Karim rowed after four games without seeing a goal. The shore, LaLiga, is in sight.

But Madrid has not yet finished sailing. After the league port, there is the Champions League in the industrious Manchester. The attempt to come back against City on August 7 will have to be without Ramos, also sanctioned, who will leave his physical place to Militao and the spiritual to Benzema. Another moment for this new Benzema.