2023-12-25 17:19:04
Arriving in Saudi Arabia this summer, Karim Benzema is criticized for his performances with Al Ittihad. On the eve of meeting Cristiano Ronaldo in the clash once morest Al Nassr (this Tuesday at 7 p.m.), are his debut in the Saudi Pro League really inferior to those of the Portuguese?
Karim Benzema on the road to Cristiano Ronaldo for the first time since the departure of the five-time Ballon d’Or for Juventus in 2018. The two former Real Madrid teammates will face each other this Tuesday in a late match of the 17th day of Saudi Pro League between Al Ittihad and Al Nassr (7 p.m.). Beyond the nostalgic scent of European football from the 2000s and 2010s, this poster might allow the Frenchman to do something recently launched by Walid Al-Farraj, a star presenter from Saudi Arabia. He didn’t play and never managed to make a single difference. And above all, he doesn’t make any effort, as if he’s saying to the audience: ‘I’m just having fun with you’.”
“When Ronaldo arrived in January, he showed signs that he wanted to play, but Benzema didn’t offer anything,” he said. “It’s as if the team didn’t like him. comfortable. I don’t know the reason.” However, if we rely on the efficiency of the two scorers, the results of their first months in the Middle East are not that far apart…
Similar individual stats over the first half of the season
Before completing his first part of the season, Karim Benzema has 12 goals and 4 assists in 19 matches (all competitions) with Al Ittihad. At the same period, at the end of the 2022-2023 season with Al Nassr which he had joined the previous winter, Cristiano Ronaldo totaled 14 goals and 2 assists in 19 matches.
With a missed penalty, and despite a goal scored at the very end of the match, KB Nueve did not prevent the elimination of his team in the second round of the Club World Cup once morest Al Ahly ten days ago (1- 3), which undoubtedly weighs when judging his beginning of adventure in Saudi Arabia. Above all, he fails to slow down the fall of his team.
Al-Ittihad no longer performs, Al-Nassr is hot on the heels of the leader
Defending champion, Al Ittihad is currently only sixth in the championship, 22 points behind leader Al Hilal. For his part, if Al Nassr also occupied the top of the ranking when he arrived, Cristiano Ronaldo managed to take second place at the end of last season. At reunion time, his club is still in runner-up position.
Almost 39 years old, CR7 is the current top scorer in the Saudi Pro League with 17 goals, far from the 9 units of Benzema, with whom he played for nine seasons with the Merengue, notably winning four Champions Leagues. The two stars will this time face-to-face, this Tuesday, at the King Abdullah Sports City in Jeddah.
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