Real Madrid striker, Karim Benzema has come out to say that he wasn’t Cristiano Ronaldo’s deputy during their time together at the Spanish club. He recently revealed this while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, he never felt the need to give Ronaldo the ball every single time he had it, and he did his best to help the team individually from time to time.
Benzema added that he did his very best to play well for Madrid when the Portuguese was around, but he always ended up scoring more.
His words, “It (the role Benzema played alongside Ronaldo) wasn’t a deputy, it wasn’t that. I didn’t say to myself: ‘Ah, I have to give him the ball all the time’. I was playing well but he was scoring twice [each game]. It’s the truth, you can’t do anything about it.”
“Since he left for Juve, I took over in my own way and it’s going well. I don’t play like Cristiano Ronaldo, and he doesn’t play like Karim Benzema.”
“He didn’t stop me from being the best version of myself. We won a lot of games, I had a lot of fun. To think like that is to be too individual. I won it all with him. The Champions League, many championships, we scored I don’t know how many goals, we were part of the magic trio with [Gareth] Bale, there were a lot of very good moments and I don’t see any bad ones.”
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