“I tried to shoot the goalkeeper at the back post. I think I did quite well,” Benzema grinned in a post-match interview with Arab media. For the 35-year-old French striker, it was the first goal for a club other than Real Madrid in 13 years.
In Friday’s duel at the King Fahd Stadium, which hosts the Arab Champions Cup, he first assisted on the equalizer. Shortly after the break, his big moment came. He took the ball on the left side, guided it to the corner of the penalty area and hit the far post with a tight shot.
Benzema, who will earn an incredible 258 million pounds (approximately 7.3 billion crowns) during three seasons at al-Ittihad, left Real Madrid after last season, with whom he won the Champions League 5 times and scored 354 goals in 648 matches.
Now he started a shooting account in al-Ittihad, where he has, for example, compatriot N’Golo Kante, who came from Chelsea, or Portuguese Jota from Celtic Glasgow as teammates. In the stadium, where home duels are played by rival Al-Nasr, in which Benzema’s former partner from the White Ballet, the Portuguese gem Cristiano Ronaldo, has been working since January. It is likely that the two of them will battle it out for the top scorer of the Saudi Arabian League.
2023-07-28 09:00:50
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