A week after the coup attempt by Florentino Perez, who seemed to find the Champions League too small for his big Real, Karim Benzema came to remind him how much this competition matters to all football lovers.

By scoring the equalizing goal (and what a goal!) Tuesday night against Chelsea, the 71st of his career in C1, the French striker has entered a little more history.

He is now the fourth top scorer in the competition, tied with Raul, and two units behind Robert Lewandowski (73).

Beyond his goal, on which Benzema seems to have stopped time with this control of the head by moving back followed by a volley under the bar of Mendy, it is the overall performance of the Frenchman that again dazzled lovers. soccer.

To the point of reviving the debate on the absence of the Madrilenian in the France team.

Not in France, no, where the journalists ended up dropping the affair, but on the other side of the Pyrenees, to the editorial staff of the newspaper

Marca

, in Madrid.

Marca

challenges Deschamps

"The crime with Benzema must stop," writes the sports daily, which also speaks of the Benzema match as a pure "recital". “He scored a big goal, he almost put in another with a shot that crashed into the post, and showed he was a capital leader besides being a crack. He understood the game better than anyone and even the imposing physical players of Chelsea could not do anything against him, ”continues the Spanish colleague.

The daily continues by affirming that Didier Deschamps does not have the right to deprive the world of football of the spectacle of Benzema at the Euro: "That this player does not participate in the European championship is a crime".

We may well know that there is no chance for this to happen, while the French coach must announce his list for the Euro on May 18, the child who sleeps in each and every one of us hopes deep down that the miracle happens.

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