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#3 Karim Benzema (France, Real Madrid)
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Benzema has scored 56 goals in 104 appearances, for his former club Lyon and his current club Real Madrid. Among all the players currently active, the Frenchman is the player closest to the runaway duo of Messi and Ronaldo in the goalscoring department of the Premier European Club Competition, yet he is a long way off from both of them.
Benzema first appeared in the Champions League in the 2005/06 season, when he played one match for Lyon, scoring 1 goal in the win against Rosenborg BK. He joined Real Madrid in the 2009/10 season, played 5 games that season in the Champions League and scored 1 goal. Last season, Benzema scored 5 goals from 9 appearances as Real became European Club Champions yet again.
Things are a bit different this season, as the Frenchman is finally out of Ronaldo’s shadow at club level, and has already scored 5 goals from 5 games for his club. He will also be raging from the snub at the 2018 FIFA World Cup, which saw him miss out on a winner’s medal. In the Champions League Group Stages, Real are in Group G, along with CSKA Moscow, Roma and Plzen and face Roma on Wednesday night in their first game of the new season. Benzema will have a lot of scores to settle, a lot of people to prove wrong and he will be desperately waiting to hit the back of the net on Wednesday.
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