Benzema is crowned: "No one can doubt that he will win the Ballon d'Or"

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The reason why

instils a fear that disables rivals, even champions, is to be found in a name:

.

In Helsinki he reaffirmed that theory with a goal, the one that tied up this European Super Cup, the first title of the season, which leads him to write another line in the history of Real Madrid.

It was 324, the goal that made him surpass

(323) in the scoring chart and begin to carve out his status as a myth.

He is far from

's 451 , but he will not stop chasing them with an average in recent seasons that exceeds 30.

When the ball has just started rolling, Benzema's legs don't weigh him down even in his thirties.

""There's no age.

The body is there and we work on it a lot », he warned in the heart of the Helsinki Olympic stadium hours before the game.

Karim has learned to cleanse body and mind, contain the weight, help his muscles and keep the faith to look for his moment in each match.

That maturity has also given him the captain's armband.

The

and the goal is one more notch in his climb towards the

.

His 2022, with the League, the Champions League -which chose him as the best player- and now the Super Cup, leaves no room for doubt: no player has made more and more decisive merits for the greatest individual recognition in the world of football.

has no doubts: «He is a very important player, a leader for the team.

If we are here it is largely thanks to him, to his merits.

He finished the season scoring and now he starts too.

He is going for the ballon d'or and I have no doubt that he will achieve it.

No one can have them, "said the coach.

Florentino Pérez

does not have them.

"He already deserved it last year and now he is already indisputable," said the president.

Achieving that award and the

with France are his next two challenges, once this first title, the one he lifted for the first time as captain, is in his pocket.

At Real Madrid there is no doubt about his essential quality, so much so that the club has not made an effort to find someone to challenge him for the position.

and

are the only ones who can share an attack and both generate more bearable pressure than

or

would have represented , for whom the whites did not even bid.

Neither the market offered anything else nor is Benzema seen to falter in the slightest.

Casemiro, best player of the match

The cool Helsinki night elevated the striker, but also served for Ancelotti's bench to also hear the warning of another giant,

.

Just when the white team had a hard time finding the Eintrach cracks, he emerged to make it clear that he is still essential for physical and tactical intelligence.

He appeared to rescue a ball finished off by Benzema that was lost by the bottom line and assist Alaba with a header so that he tilted a too sleepy game to the white side.

And in the second half he hit the crossbar with a powerful shot that looked like a goal.

Two plays that seemed to speak to their direct competition.

Real Madrid has set out to find the perfect replacement for the Brazilian now that he has passed the 30-year barrier and within the framework of the renewal of the trio that he forms with

and

.

But the chosen ones will have to scale a wall.

Last season, the club hired Eduardo

for Ancelotti for 40 million, but the Frenchman could not unseat the owners of the title.

Neither Kross nor Modric, much less Casemiro, who ended up playing 32 league games and 11 Champions League games because he missed one due to suspension.

Only in the first leg against City was he a substitute.

This season, the frustrated arrival of Mbappé has once again made the club look for another mainstay in midfield, this time at a cost of almost 100 million.

will have the task of showing that his lungs are capable of outshining the Brazilian, chosen last night as the man of the match.

"The people who have arrived put a lot of encouragement and those of us who are here want to teach, because Real Madrid lives on victories and we have to give everything in every game".

Casemiro's word.

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