‘No doubt Karim Benzema should win 2022 Ballon d’Or’ says Real Madrid team-mate Eden Hazard

Eden Hazard has “no doubt” his Real Madrid team-mate Karim Benzema should win the 2022 Ballon d’Or after the Frenchman led the Spanish giants to a surprise LaLiga and Champions League double last season. Benzema was the top goalscorer in La Liga with 27 goals from 32 games and registered a goal or assist every 89 minutes in the Champions League, which included hat-tricks against Paris Saint-Germain and Chelsea. Ad/> He became Real Madrid’s joint-second highest goalscorer, only behind Cristiano Ronaldo who leads the way on 405 goals to Benzema’s and Raul’s 323.

TransfersLewandowski set to complete £42.5m Barcelona transfer — Paper Round16/07/2022 AT 05:49 «I think he [Benzema] deserves to win the Ballon d’Or,” Hazard told ESPN. “There's no doubt about it. “But I think he deserves it not just for that season, but for his whole career.

It's like he's been at the top for 15 years. Maybe he's scoring more goals, which is why people just want him to win this Ballon d'Or, but I think he deserved it before, like five years ago. »He's our captain now and he's also like, a really good guy.

He's not talking that much on the pitch, doing what he wants. He's our leader. So we just pushed him to go for the Ballon d'Or." Real Madrid president Florentino Perez is also “certain” Benzema will win the 2022 Ballon d’Or, claiming he is “the best centre forward in the world”.

Perez trusts Benzema’s ability to find the back of the net so much, that he informed Real Madrid to not to pursue Erling Haaland, who has joined Manchester City, earlier this summer. «This moment is incompatible with Haaland,» said Perez. «We were not going to recruit him to put him on the bench.