Chelsea – Real Madrid: Karim Benzema’s exceptional hat-trick on video

The 2021-2022 Champions League has not yet delivered its verdict, but the identity of the best player in it is however taking shape more clearly this Wednesday. After almost single-handedly eliminating Paris Saint-Germain in the round of 16, Karim Benzema showered Stamford Bridge on Wednesday by scoring an exceptional hat-trick against Chelsea in the quarter-final first leg.

In the 21st minute, it was he who opened the scoring by launching Vinicius into space. Then by being at the reception of the center of the Brazilian to send a magnificent helmet shot into the skylight of a very impotent Edouard Mendy (0-1, 21st).

Then, a few minutes later, it was on a whipped cross from Luka Modric that Benzema took the ball from the skull by putting the Chelsea goalkeeper out of reach (0-2, 23rd).

If you thought the Benzema show was over, you were wrong. Returning from the locker room, it was again him who made Edouard Mendy feverish on his kick-start thanks to his pressing which offered him the hat-trick on a plateau. Two consecutive hat-tricks in C1, in two decisive matches. Did you say Ballon d’Or?