Since the start of the current season 2022-2023, Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema has only scored 6 goals in all competitions, without affecting the results of the royal team, which is achieving distinguished results at the local and continental levels.

Real Madrid owes this to the extraordinary brilliance of the Latin trio, Brazilians Vinicius Junior and Rodrigo Goes, and Uruguayan Federico Valverde.

VVR shines with Real Madrid

The aforementioned trio scored 25 goals for Real Madrid in all competitions, a number that would compensate for the low numbers of Benzema this season, who missed 7 games due to injuries, according to the Spanish newspaper "MARCA".

The newspaper devoted a wide space to highlight the brilliance of the three players, and named them "VVR", especially after the great level they showed against Celtic, Scotland, in the last rounds of the group stage of the Champions League.

Vinicius Junior has scored 10 goals since the start of the season, one goal less than half of the goals he scored last season 2021-2022.

Rodrygo Goes raised his shares with Italian coach Carlo Ancelotti with his seven goals, as well as his harmony with his colleagues, and his high tactical flexibility that facilitates many things for his team and colleagues on the field.

MARCA: With Benzema not fit for most of this season, Real Madrid's attacking trio of VVR has 25 goals so far: Vinicius (10 goals), Valverde (8) and Rodrygo (7).

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But the qualitative leap and the big leap in scoring was made by Valverde, who proved that his coach's bet on him was a successful one.

Ancelotti asked Valverde to score more goals, after he scored one goal last season, which Valverde responded to by scoring eight goals so far.

Ancelotti praised the great development of this trio after the team's match against Celtic, and said, "I don't know when they will stop and where their performance will be."

He added, "Their development and rise in individual and collective quality is very great, they work hard, in addition to being humble, so it is certain that they will continue to grow."

Real Madrid finished the group stage of the Champions League, topping Group F with 13 points, ahead of Germany's RB Leipzig, Ukraine's Shakhtar Donetsk and Scotland's Celtic.

Al Meringhi is second in the Spanish league with 32 points, one point behind its arch-rivals Barcelona, ​​but Real Madrid has the chance to return to the top because it has less game.

Better than all Atlético strikers

And Marca newspaper pointed out that the numbers of "VVR" are superior to those provided by the Atletico Madrid strikers, who scored only 14 goals, through Antoine Griezmann (6), Alvaro Morata (5) and Angel Correa (3).

Only the Barcelona attacking trio surpasses them locally, with 28 goals, scored by Robert Lewandowski (18), Ferran Torres (5), and Ousmane Dembele (5).

The Paris Saint-Germain trio, Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappe and Neymar are in the lead with 44 goals, followed by Manchester City players Erling Haaland, Phil Foden and Julio Alvarez (36).

In third place are the Bayern Munich trio: Sadio Mane, Jamal Musila and Leroy Sane, with 32 goals.