Butragueño: “Benzema is in a splendid moment”

Emilio Butragueño, director of institutional relations at Real Madrid, assured that the French Karim Benzema, author of the first two goals in the victory in Balaidos before him Celtic, “once again he has been a decisive player.”

“He has scored two high-class goals. Control in the first is a beauty and how the second ends too, choose what the play needed,” he said. Butragueño on the French striker.

“He is a very complete player in every way. He is scoring goals and plays football very well. It is fortunate for us to have him and he is in a splendid moment. Hopefully from here until the end he also continues to help us like this,” he told Movistar.

Butragueño, on the other hand, stressed that for him Real Madrid “It's a blessing” to have a player with the speed of Vinicius. “It is fortunate,” added the former international striker, who added that the Brazilian “is very young” and the club has “high hopes for him.”

He opined that the Real Madrid had made “a very complete game” in Balaidos and he deserved the victory, because he considered that although the first thirty minutes were “excellent”, in the rest of the match he also had control and opportunities to close the victory earlier.