Paris (AFP)
Real Madrid’s French international Karim Benzema has the opportunity to break the record set by his former teammate Cristiano Ronaldo at the Portugal International Club, where he plays against Liverpool in the Champions League final on Saturday in Paris.
This is the same result that Ronaldo scored in the 2016-2017 season, with Benzema scoring the most goals this season with 15 goals, including 10 in the playoffs against Paris Saint-Germain, Chelsea and Manchester City, England.
Benzema are two goals behind the Portuguese Dawn’s most valuable Continental rival of 17 goals in the 2013-2014 season.
Benzema is two goals ahead of Bayern Munich’s Polish international Robert Lewandowski (13 goals), sharing third place in the tournament’s record list (86 goals each), bigger than captain Ronaldo (140 goals) and Argentina’s Lionel Messi II (125). .
Also in the Liverpool line-up, Egyptian international strikers Mohamed Salah and Senegal Sadio Mane scored 13 goals, including eight for the “little pharaoh”.
In the 2019 final, when Liverpool won the sixth Continental title in its history, when Senegal scored in the 2018 final, the Egyptians opened the scoring against Tottenham Hotspur in the 2019 final, with Salah and Mane having previously played in the final for the parent tournament. The edition, especially Real Madrid, when he drew the match, the Royal Club won 3-1, winning the title for the third time in a row and the thirteenth in its history.
Mane Cole scored 3-1 in the first leg of the quarterfinal match against Benfica in Lisbon.