Benzema dedicates the knot to Saint Germain.. and sets records on a historic night
French international striker Karim Benzema dedicated his compatriot, Paris Saint-Germain, to the Champions League, despite the arsenal of stars in his ranks, when he turned the table with three (3-1) on Wednesday in the second leg of the final price, to lead his Real Madrid team to the quarter-finals accompanied by Manchester City, the English club, tied with its Portuguese guest, Sporting, in a negative way.
Real Madrid and Manchester City joined Bayern Munich and Liverpool to the quarter-finals after the latter booked their cards on Tuesday at the expense of Austrian Salzburg and Inter Milan, respectively.
The second leg of the final price matches will be completed next Tuesday and Wednesday.
In the first match, Saint-Germain was on his way to easily reserve his ticket to the quarter-finals in his quest for his first title in the competition, when he imposed his advantage over the course of the first half and settled it with a goal for his star Kylian Mbappe, who is nominated to move to the Royal Club next summer in a free deal (39), Reinforcing his club's progress with the goal of the first leg.
But the record holder in the number of titles in the competition (13) hit hard in the second half thanks to a hat-trick of his leader Benzema in the 61st, 76th and 78th minutes.
It is the second time that Real Madrid has left Paris Saint-Germain out of the final price of the competition, after the first in the 2017-2018 season, when it won 3-1 in the first leg and 2-1 in the back and continued his career until he won the third title in a row and the 13th in its history led by his former coach Zinedine Zidane. .
The Royal Club responded by considering its loss to the French team in the group stage of the 2018-2019 season, when it fell 3-0, in the first leg in Paris, before it drew 2-2 at home.
Benzema imposed himself as a star in the second half and equalized when he pressured Donnarumma inside the area as he tried to clear the ball, so he played it to the unmarked Brazilian Vinicius Junior, who prepared it for the French international, and he shot it with his right from close range into the goal (61).
Benzema gave the royal club the lead when he received a ball inside the area from Modric between the legs of Presnel Kimpembe and hit it with his right right into the goal (76), before adding the qualifying goal two minutes later when he took advantage of a ball that was pushed away by the Brazilian international captain Marquinhos in front of his compatriot Vinicius, so it was ready in front of the top scorer. The Frenchman who shot it to the left of Donnarumma (78).
Benzema broke many records, raising the number of his goals in all competitions with Real Madrid to 309, surpassing the late legend Alfredo Di Stefano and becoming the third in the list of Real Madrid's historical scorers, as well as the largest player in the history of champions to score a hat-trick.
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