Karim Benzema: The most important man at Real Madrid? - Eurosport.co.uk
In his first season at Real Madrid he spoke to more traffic cops than Spanish journalists. In 2009 he crashed his club car driving home from his first ever Clásico, and then needed to have his yellow Lamborghini towed after another smash this time on Reunion Island as he gave French rapper Rhoff a 6am lift away from his 22nd birthday... No one thought then that Benzema would become ‘the sensible one’. He is still the player whose fleet of cars includes a Rolls Royce Phantom, a Ferrari 458 and a Bugatti Veyron but needs a lift into work every morning because of driving license problems following an eight-month ban but in all other realms he has... And having played in the Real Madrid team that beat Manchester City 4-1 and Inter 3-0 he then watched from the sidelines as Rafa Benitez’ side scored just four goals in six games including last week’s goalless draw with newly-promoted Sporting... It turns out that even though Real Madrid have plenty of players who run very fast with the football towards goal, if they don’t have Benzema playing with his back to it, sucking defenders out of position and cushioning passes to the onrushing... He’s the scrabble vowels and without him Madrid have a lot of high-scoring consonants. Source: www.eurosport.co.uk
