*The best of Real Madrid's 3-0 win over Mallorca
Thanks to his double against Mallorca on Monday, Karim Benzema became the top French scorer in history with 413 goals. The experienced gunner was key in Real Madrid's 3-0 win and allowed his team to gain 10 points ahead of La Liga over Sevilla, his immediate pursuer. The bad news is that he left before the final whistle due to physical discomfort.
After Vinicius Jr. opened the scoring, the French striker expanded the merengue count by transforming a penalty kick in 77 minutes and later scored the head to sentence the score. With his treble against Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) on Wednesday in the second round of the Champions League, Benzema had already surpassed Alfredo Di Stéfano to place himself as the third highest gunner in Real Madrid history.
Now, with his double, he reached 311 shouts with the white shirt. He also scored 66 goals when he played for Lyon, and 36 for the French national team, to which he returned last summer for the European Championship. Thus, he reached a total of 413 and beat Thierry Henry by two as the French footballer with the most goals in history.
El Gato is at the top of a list that includes goalscorers such as Jean-Pierre Papin (372 goals) and Michel Platini (358 goals). A feat that increases its value when you consider that Benzema was for a long time in the shadow of Cristiano Ronaldo at Real Madrid, that he did not take the club's penalties (long reserved for CR7 or Sergio Ramos) and that he was removed from the French national team for more than five years.
The bad news for Benzema is that after scoring 3-0 he felt a puncture in a twin and chose to leave the court in a match that was already sentenced, leaving his team outnumbered in the final minutes of the match. It is worth remembering that on Sunday the Madrid cast will host Barcelona, in a new edition of the classic.
Carlo Ancelotti, coach of Real Madrid, spoke at a press conference after the victory and said that the 10-point advantage over Sevilla is positive, but not defining: “Nothing changes, on Sunday (against Barcelona) we have to win and take advantage of the fact that the team is doing very well physically”. In addition, he insisted: “I know how a Champion final (Milan against Liverpool) is lost by winning 3-0, and it happened”.
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