It will be necessary to think one day, once he is quietly lying in the Pantheon to sleep the sleep of the king, to study the brain of Karim Benzema.

Because, in such a more-suffocating-than-that-you-die semi-final, as was that of Tuesday evening between the silky Manchester City and the indestructible Real Madrid, who could have imagined such a gesture on peno?

Especially in the 82nd minute, when your team is down 4-2 and you missed two in the same match six days earlier (against Osasuna)!

But Benzema is not a human being like the others.

So, when rushing against Ederson to close the gap, the Frenchman tried the impossible, the panenka that kills.

Impossible not to see his "brother" Zinédine Zidane, sixteen years back against Gianluigi Buffon in the World Cup final.

An unclassified mind

Questioned at the microphone of Canal + after the meeting, KB9 opened the doors of his cerebral matter to us.

But first, he came back to his two previous failures: “If you don't shoot, you're sure not going to miss!

The two penalties in La Liga, I took them well but there was a good goalkeeper.

Today is mental strength, cold blood.

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Surely this incident must have crossed his mind for a moment when he put the ball on the point of peno.

Sure also that Ederson had these images in mind and thought he had a small advantage over the shooter.

So the Benz swiped.

“The goalkeepers watch me, watch how I take penalties.

There are times when you have to change.

Simple said like that, right?

And since it is now impossible to have Benzema at his microphone without mentioning the Ballon d'Or, Canal went there with his little question.

The answer, in addition to being sincere, is no less beautiful than his panenka five minutes earlier: “I think above all of winning La Liga and winning the Champions League.

What comes next we will see, I am really focused on the collective trophies.

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