After beats Liverpool in the first leg of the quarter-finals of the Champions League, Karim Benzema spoke with LaLiga on Wednesday about the match they will face next Saturday against Barcelona la Di Stéfano.
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The French striker admits that Clásico is the best game of all globally and pointed to the only productive footballer that the Barça team has, the one who does absolutely everything.
” El Clásico for me is the best game in the world and not only for me, for everyone, because they are two teams that have a lot of history and it is always a very important game. We are facing this as a final “, said the Frenchman.
As always, it will be a difficult game against a team that likes to have the ball. We also like to have it. It will be played in the middle and just like in the first round we will enter the field to win, because it is a final for us “, he added. Benzema, who has already scored 18 goals this season in the local championship.
Messi, the one who does everything
The striker believes that Barcelona bet on possession and look for imbalance with Leo messi.
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“They always have possession, they have a good goalkeeper and Messi, the player who does everything for Barcelona. We have to be careful because it is very dangerous, “he warned Karim.
Finally, he referred to the campaign in which he plays. ” I don’t know if it’s my best season, every year I start from scratch and I want to improve on the previous one. Now I have a series of scores and if I can continue, I work to help my team win points and games, I will. The important thing is to win “, he commented.
” I feel free on the field, I do what I want, I help the team at the beginning of the game, I finish it. There are more games and this league will be decided in the end. It is very difficult, but we have to enter the field in every game as if it were a final “, concluded the Frenchman.