How far is that conversation in Mönchengladbach, hunted by the cameras, in which Benzema supposedly told Mendy not to pass the ball to Vinicius. Right now they are best partners and Friends he notices it a lot when he doesn’t have Karim’s clairvoyance by his side. In San Mamés in Copa and this past Saturday in La Cerámica, the brazilian was an island. Neither Asensio, nor Bale, nor Isco, nor Rodrygo give Vinicius as many passes as eldest brother Benzema.
A brotherly love for which a Vinicius will pray this Valentine’s Day drowns without the nine madridista. Of the six games that Benzema has missed this season where Vinicius was available, the Brazilian was only able to score in one. The balls, which rain with the French on very favorable occasions also to score, dwindle to drought when there are other companions in the Madrid attack front. Benzema gives an average of 5.6 passes per game to Vinicius (reverse is very similar: 5.8 passes of the 20 madridista to the Frenchman).
A contribution very different to which he has received Friends of the other attackers, without going any further, last week in San Mamés in the Cup elimination and last Saturday in Vila-Real. In front of yellow Submarine, the new white star he only received a ball from Bale and another from Asensio. A fifth of what Benzema usually spends on him. In Bilbao It was even more dramatic, for Vinicius and for Madrid. Zero passes from Asensio, zero passes from Isco and just Rodrygo’swith which there is more feeling. In neither of those two games Friends could sing goal. Missing that creativity from Benzema.
While the rivals find strong-arm ways to stop Vinicius, he and Ancelotti look more than ever at the Karim’s fitness in Paris. Not only because of the sudden white drought (one goal in his last 44 shots) without the captain in pectoris or the 24 goals and nine assists of the French in this course. It is his way of multiplying the power of Vinicius.