Actual Madrid ahead Karim Benzema is having fairly a season.
The Frenchman continued together with his red-hot kind on Tuesday evening as he scored a brace in Actual Madrid’s 4-3 loss to Manchester Metropolis within the Champions League semi-final first-leg conflict on the Etihad Stadium.
His brace means he has scored eight targets within the final three Champions League matches, taking his tally to 14, one above Bayern Munich’s Robert Lewandowski.
He’s considered one of the crucial prolific gamers the competitors has ever seen, and the numbers again him up.
The 34-year-old has now scored 85 targets within the competitors, one behind Lewandowski, who’s on 86.
General, he’s fourth on the listing and will match the Polish striker’s tally if he scores within the return match at Santiago Bernabeau.
Benzema has now scored 41 targets in 41 video games this season, turning into the fifth participant to succeed in this determine in a single season in Actual Madrid’s historical past, after Cristiano Ronaldo, Ferenc Puskas, Alfredo Di Stefano, and Hugo Sanchez.
He has additionally closed the hole on Raul because the second-highest goalscorer within the membership’s historical past, with 320 targets to the previous captain’s 323.
