El Clasico, the Spanish Super Cup final, will be an opportunity to break up the partnership between current Real Madrid captain Karim Benzema and former Barcelona captain Lionel Messi, as they are the only two players to score in 5 consecutive matches in the tournament’s history.
King Fahd International Stadium in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, will host the final of the championship between the two Spanish poles on Sunday evening, in the first official final between them to be held outside the borders of Spain.
With his goal once morest Valencia, Benzema became the second player in the history of the tournament to score in 5 consecutive matches (5 goals) following Messi, who scored 8 goals in 5 consecutive matches between 2010 and 2012, and if Benzema hits Barcelona’s net, he will become the first to score goals in 6 continuous confrontations .
Messi scored a hat-trick during Barcelona’s victory over Seville by four in the second leg of the 2010-2011 season following losing 3-1 in the first leg, and scored Real Madrid 3 times back and forth before the start of the season that followed, crowning the cup, and with the start of the 2012-2013 season, he scored two goals in the two matches from the mark. The penalty and a free kick, but his team lost the championship in favor of Los Blancos.
As for Benzema, he scored 5 goals during the last 5 matches he played with Real Madrid in the tournament, once morest Valencia on Wednesday evening, and two goals in the semi-finals and final of the last edition once morest Barcelona and Athletic Bilbao, and in the semi-finals of the 2020-2021 season once morest Bilbao, and the French did not participate in the 2019-2020 edition. injury, and he started that series once morest Stegen during the second leg of the 2017-2018 edition among his fans in the Santiago Bernabeu in the match that ended with his teammates winning with two unanswered goals.
In general, Messi leads the competition’s top scorer rankings with 14 goals in 20 matches, followed by Raul Gonzalez with 7 goals he scored in 12 matches, and Benzema scored 6 goals following appearing on 12 occasions so far.
