Lhe march of the great star always generates questions, doubts, questions about the type of answers that the team can find to an endless number of situations that used to go through that referential player. This is what he is facing now. real Madrid after the decision of Karim Benzema to go to Saudi Arabia and with Mbapp more as a possible future than present.
The video with which Real Madrid pays tribute to Benzema: “Thank you, Benzema”
With Benzema A lot of football and many goals come out of Real Madrid. With 354 targets, Karim He is the second striker in the club’s history, second only to Christian. It is up to Ancelotti to find answers to that void, something that other coaches have had to face throughout their history in a club where the weight of the present does not allow for sweet transition processes or slow adaptation times.
Cristiano: Benzema takes the step; bale not
Cristiano Ronaldo He decided to leave Madrid in July 2018, just after closing the cycle of the three Champions Leagues in a row and with a never-before-known number of goals: 451 goals in 438 games. The club decided that bale He would take a step forward to fill a large part of the void left by the Portuguese. LopeteguiDistrustful, he insisted on the arrival of a pure scorer. So much so that in the end the club relented and reluctantly bought Marian.
The first year without Christian it was a disaster: three coaches (Lopetegui, Solari and Zidane), a title (Club World Cup) and League and Champions delivered in March. Bale finished with 14 goals, but with a starting tag for Zidane. Only Benzema (30 goals) was up to the task. The bad that that campaign left behind was a lot, but Madrid discovered that it had in Karim a scorer who between 2018 and 2023 scored 162 of his 354 goals in Madrid.
Five years now since one of the best goals in history: Cristiano’s Chilean kick against Juve
Ral, the scorer was already Cristiano
The arrival of Mourinho to the bench of real Madrid coincided with the march of ral to the Schalke 04. The captain was leaving, the emblem, a player of the time. An institution. And, with 323 goals, the top scorer in the club’s history at the time. But the role of ral in the white team it had been declining. His seven goals in his farewell season was the lowest figure, only equaled by 2005-06, that of his knee injury.
The first season without Ral returned the Cup to Madrid, which they had not won since 1993, and the return to the semifinals of the Champions. The role of scorer was marked in red for Cristiano, who in 2010-11 signed 53 goals in 54 games.
Ral’s two goals in the Eighth and the Ninth for Real Madrid.
Di Stfano: League and Grosso top scorer
The output of Di Stefano of Madrid in the summer of 1964 was traumatic. The relationship between the arrow, Miguel Muoz and Bernabu It had splintered in such a way that it muddied the goodbye of the most important player in the history of Madrid. The man from Buenos Aires changed everything. He was the beacon of the top five European Cups and left behind 308 goals in 396 games. And eight Leagues.
the first season without The Blonde Arrow It was the best scorer for Grosso (23 goals in 37 games) and the League championship. In the European Cup, Madrid fell in the quarterfinals against Benfica being crushed in the first leg in Lisbon (5-1, 2-1 in the Bernabou) and in the Cup he said goodbye in the round of 16 after losing 4-0 in the Metropolitan after the 1-0 in Chamartn.
32 years of Di Stéfano’s Super Ballon d’Or: a unique and unrepeatable award
Santillana, sweet relief
Carlos Alonso Santillana He announced in April 1988 that his adventure in Madrid was coming to an end, the one that started in 1971. He was on his way to turning 36. The best header in the history of Spanish football scored until his last game, against Valladolidto leave his account at 290 targets.
The relay was not a trauma, because the role of the team’s main scorer had not been owned by santillanaspecifically since the arrival of Hugo Sanchez in 1985.
with the mexican and butragueo as owners of the front, Losada as substitute and schuster as a star signing, Madrid was champion of the League, Cup and Super Cup. But the long-awaited European Cup did not arrive. What’s more, that season ended in catharsis because of the 5-0 loss against Milan of ancelotti in the second leg of the semifinals. That signed the sentence of Leo Beenhakker.
Santillana’s farewell
Puskas, goodbye without noise
On April 12, 1967, against the Mestalla and in a friendly at the Bernabu, Ferenc Puskas He was playing his last game with Real Madrid. In that season, the Hungarian star only played friendlies. He no longer gave for more at 40 years old (he was born on April 2, 1927). Although he was on the squad, the 1966-67 campaign can be considered the first real one without puskas.
The previous season, the one that ended the Sixth in Brusselshad assisted with 10 goals in just 14 games.
In the 66-67, Madrid won the League, fell in the quarterfinals of the European Cup against Inter, in the Cup they said goodbye in the quarterfinals (Valencia) and Pearl I beat the intercontinental.
Zamorano signed Real Madrid’s 4,000th goal in the 1994/95 season
Hugo Sánchez and the good arrival of Zamorano
On April 2, 1991, Hugo Sanchez announced that he would leave Madrid at the end of the season. He had just been diagnosed with a partial tear of the anterior cruciate ligaments in his right knee, for which he underwent surgery three weeks later. His goodbye was surrounded by tension, crossed messages, information about a contaminated relationship in the booth and a Madrid wandering and mortally wounded after falling 0-3 against him. spartak in the return of the quarterfinals of the European Cup. But the Mexican left after scoring a season: the five consecutive Leagues, his 208 goals and five times top scorer in the league.
Faced with the loss of their scoring banner since 1985, Madrid went to Seville to sign Zamorano. The Chilean’s performance was immediate: 37 goals in 45 games, his highest figure in his four seasons at Madrid. With Benedict Floro at the controls, Madrid in 1992-93 won the Cup, lost the League in the second tragedy of Tenerife I am in the Uefa fell resoundingly in Paris: 4-1 in the second leg after winning 3-1 in Madrid.
