Karim Benzema wins UEFA Champions league Best player award

The UEFA Technical Observing panel have crowned Karim Benzema of Real Madrid as the 2021/2022 UEFA Champions League Player of the Season.

The Real Madrid forward takes the award after topping the goal scoring charts with 15 goals and driving his team to glory during their run of breath-taking comebacks.

The French striker was the talisman for Madrid as he drove them on to a record 14th European title, and his fifth since he joined from Lyon in 2009. Not only did Benzema hit double figures for Champions League goals in a single season for the first time in his career, his final tally of 15 earned him top spot in the competition scoring charts.

Notably, a joint-record ten of those goals came in the knockout stage, beginning with a decisive late hat-trick against Paris Saint-Germain in the round of 16.

Although Benzema did not score in the final, he now stands joint third with Robert Lewandowski in the all-time European Cup goals table.

“He gets better every day, like wine,” according to his coach Carlo Ancelotti, as he explained last month.

“Every day he becomes an even better leader, and feels more how important he is for the team and for the club. We are really happy and lucky to have him.”

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