[sport] Real Madrid vs Shakhtar: Karim-Vinicius, the goal partnership returns in search of Champions League lead

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Real Madrid brings back Benzema against Shakhtar in search of the Champions League group leadership that has been so difficult for the team.

The Frenchman arrives with his batteries charged after the rest that Ancelotti gave him against Elche, a match for which he did not even travel. The same formula of Modric against Osasuna was applied to the striker last Saturday.
 

Rest planned by Pintus to avoid scares. Six days without playing for Benzema (since October 27 against Osasuna) that he needed to get some air and get out of the injury risk situation in which he found himself after having played all the matches with Real Madrid and with the national team since the competition started last August 14. In total, 13 games with Madrid and five with the national team before the well-deserved rest.

Benzema is the novelty in a list without surprises, with the already known absentees of Bale, Valverde, Rodrygo, Mariano and Ceballos.
Benzema returns, among other things, to defend his status as Real Madrid's Pichichi, which is threatened by Vinicius, who played as '9' against Elche in the absence of the Frenchman. Karim's return will allow Ancelotti to put his two strikers together again in attack: Benzema has 11 goals this season, compared to nine for the Brazilian.
Madrid's goal partnership is back to bring order to a Champions League in which they have not yet done their homework. They need to win their direct duel with the bottom of the group (Shakhtar) and look at what happens at Sheriff-Inter to see if they can make a breakthrough in the standings in the last two rounds.