Good form brings with it good fortune. When Karim Benzema looks back at replays of his ninth goal in his last eight matches, the penultimate in Real Madrid's 5-1 victory against Rayo Vallecano on Saturday, he will admit he looked a good meter offside.
No flag from the touchline, and so no interrupting the smooth run of goals from Madrid's formidable number nine. Benzema has now scored at least once in each of his last seven La Liga and UFEA Champions League fixtures. Much more of this and Cristiano Ronaldo may even start to look over his shoulder. Ronaldo, who scored Madrid's fifth -- with his own slice of luck, a bad goalkeeping error by Cristian Alvarez -- now has goals from each of his last 16 league games.
Benzema knows, after five years as companion to the prodigious Portuguese, he is unlikely to finish a season with more goals to his name than a fit Ronaldo. Indeed, asserting yourself as one of the sport's very best center-forwards when you share space in La Liga with Ronaldo and Barcelona's Lionel Messi is tough. Those epoch-defining superwingers command the statistical skyline, collect most of the superlatives.
Good form brings with it good fortune. When Karim Benzema looks back at replays of his ninth goal in his last eight matches, the penultimate in Real Madrid's 5-1 victory against Rayo Vallecano on Saturday, he will admit he looked a good meter offside.
No flag from the touchline, and so no interrupting the smooth run of goals from Madrid's formidable number nine. Benzema has now scored at least once in each of his last seven La Liga and UFEA Champions League fixtures. Much more of this and Cristiano Ronaldo may even start to look over his shoulder. Ronaldo, who scored Madrid's fifth -- with his own slice of luck, a bad goalkeeping error by Cristian Alvarez -- now has goals from each of his last 16 league games.
Benzema knows, after five years as companion to the prodigious Portuguese, he is unlikely to finish a season with more goals to his name than a fit Ronaldo. Indeed, asserting yourself as one of the sport's very best center-forwards when you share space in La Liga with Ronaldo and Barcelona's Lionel Messi is tough. Those epoch-defining superwingers command the statistical skyline, collect most of the superlatives.
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