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Benzema?s goals, Ceballos? steel and Vini?s anger Real Madrid recorded their second 4-2 in a week as this time they ran out the victors, bouncing back from defeat at Girona by overcoming Almería in a comfortable evening at the Estadio Santiago Bernabéu.
A rapid hat-trick from Karim Benzema in the first half meant that the result was almost already settled before Lázaro Vinicius pulled one back on the stroke of half-time. In the second half, Rodrygo Goes made it four and Lucas Robertson gave Almería a slither of hope which amounted to nothing.
Here are three stats which help us to understand the game.
236: LaLiga goals for Karim Benzema, putting him 4th in the all-time ranking Karim Benzema continues to set records and extend his legacy at Real Madrid, and this time he closed even further in on the podium of LaLiga?s best ever goalscorers. With his first goal, he levelled with Hugo Sánchez as LaLiga?s fourth-highest ever goalscorer on 234 goals, and only 12 minutes later he was ahead and stood alone in fourth place.
The next target is Telmo Zarra, who is only 17 goals ahead of him on 253, and is the highest ranking Spaniard in the list. Beyond him are some seemingly unattainable targets, Cristiano Ronaldo on 311, and Lionel Messi on 417. 17 goals seems a reasonable target for a man who took his tally for this season in LaLiga to 17 with this hat-trick.
Additionally, four of his last six goals have now all ...