The year 2021 is the best in Karim Benzema’s long career. The Frenchman is improving season after season and in the last 12 months he has definitely established himself, if he wasn’t already, as one of the best players in the world.
In the last 12 months, the French striker has played a total of 50 games with the Real Madrid shirt in which he has scored 38 goals and has distributed 12 assists; in other words, his scoring average is 0.76 goals per game. Of those 38 goals, he scored 30 in LaLiga and gave 11 assists for which he participated directly in 41 of the goals scored in 2021 by Real Madrid, which represents 51.25 of the goals.
His extraordinary performance served to earn the pardon of Didier Deschamps who called him up again with the French team to play in Europe. In total, Benzema has played 13 matches with the bleu shirt this year and has already scored 9 goals and 2 assists.
In total Benzema has played a total of 63 games in 2021 distributing 14 assists and scoring 47 goals, and ahead of him they have only scored more goals this year between clubs and national team Robert Lewandowski (58), Kylian Mbappé (52) and Erling Haaland (49), thus surpassing Cristiano Ronaldo (46) and Leo Messi (43).
Benzema is increasingly decisive for Real Madrid and is going through a very sweet moment. The Frenchman is one of the main references of the team and idols of the white fans. So far in the league, the Frenchman has scored 15 goals and is going for his first Pichichi Trophy.
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