Benzema scores the thousandth goal for Real Madrid in the European Cup

Real Madrid reached a thousand goals in the European Cup. Those of Ancelotti had their first opportunity to cross an unexplored border against Shakhtar at the Bernabéu and took advantage of it, through Benzema, to pass from Vinicius. Others will arrive at this same place, but they will take time: the second is Bayern, with 768 goals; the third, Barcelona, ​​with 655. Benzema joins the club of footballers who scored the goals of the Madrid club in their fetish competition: Miguel Muñoz (the first), Di Stéfano (100), Puskas (200), Jensen (300), Losada (400), Guti (500), Beckham (600), Higuaín (700) and Cristiano (800 and 900) .

Madrid’s leadership in this statistic is not accidental; the white club commands in most of the historical rankings of the UEFA competition, which it helped to found in its day together with the newspaper L’Équipe. It is the team with the most titles (13), followed by Milan (7) and Liverpool and Bayern (6); also the one who has participated the most times (47), followed by Benfica (41) and Dinamo Kiev and Ajax (38); He has played more games than anyone else (455), accumulates more victories than any other club (270) and in the statistics that UEFA shows, he is only second in one category: that of the red cards, where Juventus surpasses him, for now .

After the match, the French striker gave his assessments of the Movistar Champions League match:

Goal 1,000. “It was a difficult game, against a good team. The rival was very good. We suffer together and we win. We didn’t play hard like the first leg, but we won “

Inconvenience. “It’s a bit tired. I will recover well for the game on Saturday “

Difficulties. “We play every three days. It’s hard. There are many high-level matches. Today we did not play well but we won. The important thing is the three points. Sometimes you can’t play well “

Whistles. “It is normal. The fans want us to play well and score goals. We always try to attack and score goals. Today’s rival was very good “

Second youth. “Every game I really enjoy my football and I try to help my team win.”