Karim Benzema, from hero to zero of the Madrid press. The former French international was set on fire after the defeat of Real Madrid on the lawn of Barça. The sports daily ace was merciless to him, attributing to him a 0/10 for all of his work. A bit exaggerated, of course, but Karim has accustomed his audience to a certain degree of excellence to the point of making any form of mediocrity unacceptable.
“Again invisible, writes ace. Nothing at all. He fails to fuel possession by picking up to receive the ball, nor does he seem to impose his paw inside the box. He is a thousand miles from the brilliant version that won him the Ballon d’Or. Ouch, that hurts.
Recurring physical problems
Still in Madrid, brand was less pithy, but just as worried about Real’s crack. “He is not there, writes the newspaper. Or at least not like before. We feel that he is not well physically because of his physical problems and that weighs in the game and decision-making. On the Chirninguito side, we obviously also make crates of them. The Sunday evening debates thus revolved around a potential successor to Karim Benzema, whose decline seems to have been confirmed for everyone. Everything is going very quickly at Real.