Fair on the day that the Real Madrid reflects that Ferenc Puskas had accomplished the feat of endorsing him six goals against Betis in a Cup semifinal match in the 1960-61 season, Karim Benzema surpassed him in the table of all-time top scorers who have played for Real Madrid. Now Monsieur Karim already occupies fifth place on Olympus for the white scorers. Sum 243 points for 242 of the Hungarian, which now occupies the sixth position. To further accentuate his feat, Benzema did it to A way of Pum canyon: he received a ball from Asensio, controlled, avoided a Valencian defender before releasing a violent left-handed who overcame Cillesen's stretch. It was his twenty-first goal of the season (among all competitions), and still 10 matches left (nine in the League plus one in the Champions League) to follow increasing your account: on the horizon appears Carlos Santillana what with 290 points, is in fourth position …
And is that this season is being that of I will break records French striker: last November he scored a double for Galatasaray tobeat Alfredo Di Stéfano in the Madrid goalscorer table in the top European competition: the European Cup. Then he assured that he did not consider himself “a legend. When I signed for this club it was a dream and now I feel very good as I am. I'm very happy. If I can help my team reach the highest level, I will continue like this. “And so it has continued. He also surpassed his own Puskas in Eibar, when he got a double that placed him a step above the magic (157 goals for 156) in the League. Two of the historic players who built the glorious white legend in the 1950s.
Further, With the second goal against Valencia, the Frenchman equaled another king in the area: Hugo Sánchez. Both are equal to 164 goals in League (The Mexican scored 208 goals in his seven white seasons). But with a big difference: while the hand got them on 207 League matches (He has an average of 0.79 goals per game in the league championship), Karim has needed to participate at 340 to match it: They are 133 more games than the Aztec (Karim's average is 0.48 goals per encounter).
Sunday will be the spearhead Madrid in the Reale Arena, a stadium that he has visited five times, but in which You have not seen a door yet. Of his game and, who knows, of his goals Madrid can follow opting for the league title: Until before the break, Benzema had scored six of the 14 goals (42.85%) he had: opened the Madrid league scoreboard in Vigo, scored the key goal in Seville (0-1 victory) and Valencia (tied the game in the 95th minute), and scored from a penalty against Betis at Benito Villamarín the last white goal before everything was stopped by the coronavirus pandemic. Also in that meeting he lost a key ball that ended Tello's goal that landed Madrid's first place in the classification … But now Karim has set out to continue breaking records. And in the background appears the silhouette of Santillana, his next objective…