Frenchman Karim Benzema continued his great streak this season – nine goals and seven assists in nine games – with his goal, from a penalty, in the defeat against Sheriff Tiraspol (1-2), which made him overcome a Real legend Madrid like Spanish Raúl González Blanco in the list of top scorers in the Champions League (72).
The Frenchman occupies the fourth position in the historical classification led by the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo (136) followed by the Argentine Leo Messi (121) -who scored his first goal with the Paris Saint-Germain shirt on Tuesday in the victory against Manchester City (2-0) and the Polish Robert Lewandowski (75).
Benzema has scored in 17 consecutive editions of the ‘Champions’, 12 goals in his beginnings with him Lyon olympic and 60 with the Real Madrid shirt.
A bitter goal from the Frenchman in the 65th minute of the match as it did not serve so that his team could add in front of a modest Sheriff that gave the surprise when winning 1-2 in Santiago Bernabéu.
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