**REPOST** Is Benzema Real Madrid's greatest No.9?
Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter
Graham Hunter
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🗓️ 18 October 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Hola!
We posted this episode ahead of Real Madrid v Liverpool in the Champions League final in May 2022 - but we thought it'd be worth a repost after he picked up the Ballon d'Or last night.
Myself and Pete discuss where Karim Benzema lands in the pantheon of Madrid forwards. Benzema hit 45 goals in 44 games last season – but how does he compare with Ronaldos 7 & 9, Raul or the forwards who made this trophy the property of Madrid in its early years?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to a special edition of the big interview with Graham Hunter in which we focus all our attentions on Karim Benzema. |
| 0:15.2 | We were posed a question a couple of months ago by our sponsors at Bet365 which was |
| 0:20.3 | where does Benzema rank in the top five of all-time Real Madrid strikers? |
| 0:25.8 | Now, it's taken us a couple of months to properly address that question, |
| 0:28.7 | but it's probably a good job as Benzema has continued to excel and indeed rewrite history. |
| 0:34.8 | His goal in the 6-0-1 over Levanti on May the 12th drew him level with |
| 0:39.0 | Raoul as Real Madrid's second top highest goal scorer on 323 goals. That's behind Cristiano |
| 0:45.9 | Ronaldo on 450. So we are going to attempt to place him in the Pantheon during the next |
| 0:52.1 | half an hour. But first of all, boys, maybe we can just reflect on the achievements of this season. |
| 0:58.6 | We're looking at 44 appearances, 44 goals, 15 assists. |
| 1:03.7 | His best season in a Real Madrid shirt. |
| 1:06.4 | Surely I stick on for the ball on door. |
| 1:09.3 | Graham, if we start with you, how can we break down the impact he has made this season in particular? |
| 1:15.6 | The Gé de Goulard, it arrived. |
| 1:19.6 | I think, I don't we put this in the context of a team which had won nothing last season, |
| 1:25.6 | a relationship with Vincius which, you know, had been fraught and fraught because he was having to teach somebody. |
| 1:34.3 | Teach to treat is the old expression. |
| 1:37.5 | And, you know, a situation in which they start in a disjointed way, the first three games have to be able to home. |
| 1:45.7 | The stadium's not ready. When the stadium is ready, they're getting crowds of 19,000. |
| 1:50.5 | You get a season where he decides to, you know, push to rejoin the French national team and does so. |
| 1:59.7 | Therefore, he's getting less rest than he used to in terms of either |
| 2:03.3 | coping with an injury, just the physically draining efforts that he puts in. |
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