Karim Benzema Named UEFA Champions League Player of The Season

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Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema has been named this season’s UEFA Champions League Player of the Season.

UEFA announced Benzema as the most valuable player on their official website UEFA.com.

“UEFA’s Technical Observer panel have named Real Madrid’s Karim Benzema as the 2021/22 UEFA Champions League Player of the Season.

“The French striker was a talismanic figure 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, but his final tally of 15 also earned him the top spot in the competition scoring charts.

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Meanwhile, Lionel Messi has stated that Real Madrid was not the best team in the just-concluded Champions League campaign despite emerging as winners of the competition.

Carlo Ancelotti’s men defeated the likes of the Reds’ Premier League rivals Manchester City and Chelsea on their way to the final at the Stade de France.

route to the final came in the last-16 tie against PSG when Karim Benzema’s stunning 17-minute hat-trick turned the second leg at the Santiago Bernabeu in Madrid’s favour.

But speaking to Argentinian broadcaster TYC, 34-year-old star Messi still insists Madrid was not the best side to have played in it this season.

“The Real Madrid game killed us. The best team doesn’t always win.

“Without taking anything away from Madrid, because they are the champions of Europe and they’re always there or thereabouts, but they weren’t the best team of this Champions League.

“The Champions League is about situations, key moments, psychological moments that take a team, where the slightest error can eliminate you and the those who are best prepared for those situations end up winning or reaching the final.”