How You Like Me Now? - The Karim Benzema Thread

Yeah, this trident worked for a while, but its well and truly dead now.

 

Now that one made me laugh...
Benzema did nothing more then for example, Pepe, to help us win any CL trophy.
he was an average players hyped beyond recognition by the Perez marketing machine, and now days he's at best a stoke city player...
but I'm pretty sure he will open all games until the end of the season in the CL.

 

Some of those assists were always OVERRATED as Ronaldo was scoring left and right, creating piss poor passes into goals for years. Despite that, someone posted a year ago or so that Benzema had an average of 4-5 shots per game most of the seasons.

However, if Morata is leaving - which i'm willing to bet my nuts that he is - i wouldn't mind keeping Benzema as the sub striker.

 

I'm willing to personally kidnap and smuggle him into France if it means him never returning to Madrid.

 

I agree with this BUT its not happening whilst Ronaldo is still at the club. Ronaldo is only willing to play on the left in a 433. Anyone who is hoping for 442 in the foreseeable future is dreaming

 

You could make a hour long video of ronaldo setting up benz this season alone for him to choke every chance and im sure there was video posted here not long ago that was almost a hour long video of benzema missing sitters and alot of them were set up from ronaldo aswell .

This idea that benzema was some poor lamb that sacrificed hes game for ronaldo gets on my tits .

 

Plenty of them instances are pure overblown media garbage like the couple of ones where bale scored a tap in from a ronaldo overhead kick that was cleared off the line and ronaldo was pissed because it was cleared off the line and the next day all the videos were edited and cut short to show ronaldo as being pissed at bale for scoring a goal when it clearly wasnt the case .

None of the team mates care about it or bothered by it .

But what has that got to do with benzema being a serial chocker in front of goal and ronaldo actually being a very good creator for benzema despite the claims that its the other way round ?

 

Except his positioning directly contradicts your claim. He knows that he cannot play winger anymore. If he wants to score large volume of goals he needs to play more centrally and closer to the box. As result he does exactly that.

 

He may move positions on the pitch during the game but its still in a 433 with a central striker and another winger. Dream on seeing Ronaldo named as 1 of 2 players playing centrally up front on the team sheet

 

Where is the evidence that suggest ronaldo refuses to play upfront ? hes been playing that role for portugal lately in the wc qualifiers and has been banging in goals left right and center.

Everyone knows that the best way for team is ronaldo up top with isco behind him. they link up great together but the problem is that benzema would have to dropped full time for ronaldo to play upfront and isco would need to actually get in the team and clearly bout them things arent allowed.

 

He can be named as CB for all i care. He is not playing as winger anymore.

 

There is no way to actually know this

 

Maybe, but for me a more logical explanation is that the constant injuries in the past seasons, culminating with the one in the last summer, have taken a severe toll on his athleticism, now diminished to the point that he simply can't keep up with elite defenders. Add to that the deferential nature of his relationship with a now different Ronaldo, as perfectly explained by @9Qui, and I think between these two, his France situation and confidence issues have very small impact at the moment. We should have cashed in on him last season, but its no surprise Zidane wanted to squeeze every drop of his favorite striker until his entire credit here is spent.

 

Next year cristiano is going to play less anyway with mbappe and possibly hazard coming benzema is going to be 3rd striker .

 

.. Walk away

 

I can't see Benzema sticking around to be a backup striker, let alone third.

 

What prevented Benzema of converting bucketload of scoring chances?

 

What prevents every other striker on the planet from converting bucketload of scoring chances. Everybody misses chances, and Benzema's 'too cool to score ugly goals' style probably contributed to that too. The bigger problem now is that he barely gets into scoring opportunities. Zidane needs to look at the situation objectively.

 

Unfortunately this approach did not enable us to win enough league titles over a 7 year span, that's a long time to keep doing the same thing with minimal results as far as the league title is concerned, but maybe we are just a CL team now?