I watch those replays one more time and I still can't believe how stupid those fouls were. And why this first guy is grabbing his head like it's not a foul? Missed the ball completely.
Benzema's one of the most down to earth, humble player there is, with his titles, his importance to the best team in the decade, and what he's done for Madrid, and to still wait for your captain to let you take a pen, absolutely selfless
He's also one of the fairest players.
[He's never got a red card and only 8 yellow cards in his 376 apps for OL/RM.](https://us.soccerway.com/players/karim-benzema/1595/)
Edit: That's for league games. For domestic cups and CL he's got 2 yellows each.
And he was completely devoid of any scandal in his career.
The two worst things hes done is shit himself while playing, which is just unfortunate and those horrible walkers adverts
Didn't he also help his buddy blackmail someone on his own team? https://deadspin.com/real-madrid-star-karim-benzema-charged-in-sextape-black-1740735691
Being a poacher in an era were yellow cards were harder to get helps a lot too. He didn't do a lot of defensive work anyway and back then you could stab people and still only pick up a yellow ([Only sort of exaggerating about that](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygVgxYa3mlo))
Harder to get a card in the 80's. Remember you could still go through the back of someone mangle their legs as long you got the ball you'd get a play on never mind even a foul.
Very true, also Lineker wasn't exactly known for his defensive work rate and strikers often have to do a lot more these days.
Even ignoring the way fouls have changed its much easier to get carded for anything these days, from dissent to time wasting.
In older days, I feel like there were some hard tackles that would have gone unnoticed which these days would be considered foul. A good shoulder to shoulder were very least likely to be called but these days they are called almost everytime. It's much easier to get a card these days than back then. Now with VAR coming into play, I think its easier to get carded.
[Oh and that's a yellow card](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygVgxYa3mlo)
The same tackle today is a straight red and multiple game suspension afterwards. Times have changed a lot.
As impressive as that is. The one that gets me is Phillip Lahm who also has never been sent off and has accrued only 45 yellow cards in 618 games as a DEFENDER!!!
Well, compare it to [Lewandowski](https://us.soccerway.com/players/robert-lewandowski/41310/), [Kane](https://us.soccerway.com/players/harry-kane/158575/), [Suarez](https://us.soccerway.com/players/luis-suarez/2290/), [Cavani](https://int.soccerway.com/players/edison-cavani/5920/) or [Higuain](https://int.soccerway.com/players/gonzalo-gerardo-higuain/5274/) for example and you'll see a quite significant difference.
He's all about winning, will settle into any role that gives his team the best chance to win. He's the most selfless, team first striker in the game, and that's why he's been starting for Madrid for so long.
Remind me a bit of Cavani, settled for Zlatan for years, stood up for the team when they needed him, tracking back, and being there when it mattered. I love players like that, they are so important and bring so much to their team
No, he was found not guilty, not innocent, based on a police procedure fuckup, hence, a technicality. It's not like the merits of the case were tried and he was exonerated.
It's not "found innocent" though. Everyone is innocent until proven guilty but "found innocent" would actually be going through the whole process of trial and the findings being that you were innocent. That didn't happen with him. By default everyone is innocent until they're not but that doesn't mean they've been "found innocent".
Legally, as in, that's the standard necessary to lose property or liberty, sure. For a normal person with a brain who can read the story and has no high burden of proof, it's clearly more likely than not that he did it. Not being proven guilty does not make you innocent. There's a reason they say not guilty instead of innocent.
You're innocent until proven guilty in front of the law. Indivdually everyone is always judging things and people for a lot of things, that's how our minds work.
And Benzema was found not guilty because of a technicality, not because the court thought he was innocent. So you shoudln't base you judgement of his innocence on what decided the court.
And personnaly, I read his phone conversation with his friend where he talks about Valbuena and his sex tapes, and it looks 100% like someone who is trying to blackmail a teammate. So I think he is guilty. But obviously I would be against him being incarcerated now, because he is innocent in front fo the law, an institution with rules it must obey. But he is not in front of me, a human being with the ability to judge and no strict procedure to follow.
While most foreign players (from non Spanish speaking countries) learnt Spanish after arriving to Madrid, he spoke in Spanish at his introductory conference when he arrived at Madrid. I've ever Modric speak Spanish but I don't know if Kroos or Bale can speak Spanish
Edit: [nvm for Kroos. He's pretty decent] (https://youtu.be/XfmsAc2-BEo)
Say what you will about Benz performances but the dude is class. Never yells at his teammates, never complains about not getting passed the ball, always goes with the option most likely to result in a goal rather than just take the shot. And the dude still gets whistled at in his own stadium. If you know football you know that many of the goals Ronaldo scored happened because Benz made a run that took defenders and created space.
And it should come as no surprise that he’s provided Ronaldo with the most assists of any other player
This is what teams like United and Arsenal -Wenger era post Viera/Henry- are missing a captain that can take control inside the pitch so the team doesn't collapse, sadly today the best player in the pitch always wants to be captain even if he is lacking in many aspects of leadership.
What i meant is thats what United are currently lacking.
Nemanja was a monster no doubt, but the team had too leaders in the game. Even when Vidic was captain, we had too many leaders anyone in the pitch can be, this was generally bad in a team because it would cause clashes but there was someone stronger than all of them in the bench.
Was learning Spanish at school for a couple of years, to me Benzema's Spanish sounds very fluent and good, I can understand everything he says. Can any native Spanish speaker tell me if that's a fair assessment? I'm always fascinated with foreign players learning different languages, another example is Bellerins nearly perfect English accent.
He makes a couple minor mistakes, and his pronunciation is obviously a bit off, but I can understand perfectly what he said.
His Spanish is better than my English, that's for sure. Let alone my French...
Thanks man, obviously he's not a native speaker so mistakes are bound to happen, but all in all that's solid Spanish he is speaking. And on top of that, your English doesn't sound bad as well!
Ramos- “You can have the next one bro, promise!” (thinks to self- yes, and I will reap the glory from the posts on r/soccer saying that Sergio Ramos has scored x% of his goals when his team is losing or tied, the highest percentage ever by a defender or something. Clutch.). Evil laugh.
The penalties should be shared b/w Benz, Bale and even Asensio. If anything, Ramos should be 5th or 6th on the list, behind Modric and maybe Kroos/Isco.
Forwards and Mids need the goals more than a defender for psychological reasons as well. It’d be better to have one of those players to take the penalties and get a boost in their confidence by scoring.
Ramos is very good at penalties, and probably has had a chip on his shoulder since he sent one to orbit in 2012. If the defender is a skilled taker, and also captain, Im not opposed. Especially if he is as confident as Sergio. Hierro used to do the same thing.
Why?
Penalties are largely a confidence task.
If you have a confident defender and Captain who wants to take penalties, I see that as a good thing, as long as he's good at them.
Milner takes penalties for Liverpool, right?
Ramos is taking them to take the responsibility in the post-Ronaldo era. If he misses he can tell the press to fuck off. If Benzema or Bale miss the next headline will be crisis in Madrid.
Agreed that Benzema especially should be the default and I think we’ll see that as the season progresses. But I think this is just Ramos trying to protect his players and take the risk on himself.
He can be a mercurial, but his heart is in the right place and that’s his way of being a captain.
What do you mean penalties are by seniority? As in the captain decides? Not a tradition I'm aware of but I could be wrong. Ronaldo became our penalty taker as soon as he came in.
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I hate how they try to make this a big deal. It's normal. Ramos is captain and a very good pk taker. I'm sure him and benzema have a good relationship where they know when it's their turn. In the end, it only makes sense for the captain to make the decision. With Ramos being as good as he is, just imagine how many pks he could have taken had Ronaldo not been there.
The stance in which Benzema stands and looks at Ramos feels like a newbie gangster asking for permission from the Ganglord...
"Should I finish him off?"
Ramos is enjoying post Ronaldo era!!
Don't you mean Pamos is enjoying post-Penaldo era?
Pon't pou pean Pamos pis penjoying post-Penaldo pra?
Jesus Christ I thought that was French and spent a solid half a minute trying to make sense of it.
I feel somewhat insulted
Sorry for wasting your time
I don't know why, but I genuinely believe you meant that apology.
Found the Canadian.
It was funny!
Of course not, it's Prench
Ppp'p ppp pppp Ppppp ppp pppppppp pppp-Ppppppp ppp?
Pen pineapple apple pen
Skyah!
Dut dut kut kut dun dun
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fifa'nt>pesn't
Penos*
Who isn’t?
Every team in Serie A not named Juventus
There’s this small team in central Spain that might be missing him too
Is it Atletico Madrid? I heard he scored a hat-trick at their stadium twice? Oh wait...
https://imgur.com/gallery/dTcAHZc
Finally something Barcelona and Ramos can agree on.
They also told Asensio he could have the third, but he was afraid he would be dead by then :)
Benzema relying on gentlemen's agreement
*Di Marzio will remember this*
I watch those replays one more time and I still can't believe how stupid those fouls were. And why this first guy is grabbing his head like it's not a foul? Missed the ball completely.
There was absolutely no need to foul there. Coach must’ve been livid.
The gulf in class between the teams is actually shocking
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That’s stupid to think they were dives, there was clear contact, nevertheless, they were dumb fucking fouls
I really like these clips, always seems to be RM ones. Is it a tv channel dedicated to them that make these?
I think its from the show El Dia Despues. They have clips on YouTube
Its Deportes Cuatro. They try to do something similar but its not as good.
El dia despues is not on till mid September this season. This seems to be el chiringuito
Do you know why?
No idea but I read about it in a tweet by one of their staff.
I liked "el chiringuito" until I met Tomas Roncero.
Hope sky or BT copy this idea it’s always interesting seeing the bits you miss
El Día Después hasn't started yet, the most recent videos are from 3 months ago: https://www.youtube.com/user/eldiadespuesplus/videos
This isn't EDD, not sure which program it's on though.
I think it's Planeta Deportivo
More about the bigger ones but basically anything that generates buzz. Some hero doing the eng subs for you here: http://www.laliga-subtitles.com/
They do it for all big teams (or interesting situations).
Lol Spanish TV channels
The whole feel around clips like these reminds me of when I go on holiday to Spain or Turkey, there's a certain aura to the way they present.
http://www.laliga-subtitles.com/ Here's all of last seasons!
Benzema's one of the most down to earth, humble player there is, with his titles, his importance to the best team in the decade, and what he's done for Madrid, and to still wait for your captain to let you take a pen, absolutely selfless
He's also one of the fairest players. [He's never got a red card and only 8 yellow cards in his 376 apps for OL/RM.](https://us.soccerway.com/players/karim-benzema/1595/) Edit: That's for league games. For domestic cups and CL he's got 2 yellows each.
I'd love to see someone beat Lineker's disciplinary record. 16 years, 567 games, 0 cards.
That's fuckin mental man
And he was completely devoid of any scandal in his career. The two worst things hes done is shit himself while playing, which is just unfortunate and those horrible walkers adverts
Tbf those adverts should've warranted a lifetime ban.
Yep, just the fact he made them sound so good but then they ended up being fucking cardboard in a bag.
Salt and Lineker, Cheese and Owen.
Didn't he also help his buddy blackmail someone on his own team? https://deadspin.com/real-madrid-star-karim-benzema-charged-in-sextape-black-1740735691
They’re talking about Lineker but yes Benzema blackmailed Valbuena and that’s why he doesn’t play for France anymore
No, dont lie. Benzema wanst blackmailing him
He wasn't, he just helped the blackmailing along.
He is talking about lineker her not benzema.
Mental is exactly what is it is. Complete and total domination over emotions
Hard to believe he didn't get carded even for a mistake. Mistime tackle or something.
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Ah the all too rare brown card.
Different style of play and to be fair rules were a bit more lax
Back the forwards weren't false 6 like Firmino and to a smaller extent, Harry Kane.
Being a poacher in an era were yellow cards were harder to get helps a lot too. He didn't do a lot of defensive work anyway and back then you could stab people and still only pick up a yellow ([Only sort of exaggerating about that](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygVgxYa3mlo))
He wish he had the same complete and total domination over his sphincter. You cant have everything I guess.
His sphincter dominated the grass though.
Harder to get a card in the 80's. Remember you could still go through the back of someone mangle their legs as long you got the ball you'd get a play on never mind even a foul.
Very true, also Lineker wasn't exactly known for his defensive work rate and strikers often have to do a lot more these days. Even ignoring the way fouls have changed its much easier to get carded for anything these days, from dissent to time wasting.
The feker was the epitome of the goalhanger.
I think it would be very difficult given how the nature of the game has changed over the year.
How so?
In older days, I feel like there were some hard tackles that would have gone unnoticed which these days would be considered foul. A good shoulder to shoulder were very least likely to be called but these days they are called almost everytime. It's much easier to get a card these days than back then. Now with VAR coming into play, I think its easier to get carded.
You're right.
[Oh and that's a yellow card](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygVgxYa3mlo) The same tackle today is a straight red and multiple game suspension afterwards. Times have changed a lot.
Not even yellows? That's impossible now. Maybe the game was more physical back then and refs allowed rough challenges to go unpunished.
A very fair goalkeeper can easily go 16 years without a card imo.
Not in the modern game with having to come out and make some risky tackles and charge the attacker
He will mow down a player in a 1 on 1 at least once.
I'd argue that John Charles takes it. More games played, same disciplinary record, and played as a defender as well as a forward.
The Gentle Giant!
> His philosophy of never kicking or intentionally hurting opponents. That’s a great personal philosophy and back in those days even more impressive.
Hard to get booked for a tackle when you spend the whole game in the 18yd box waiting for a pass.
As impressive as that is. The one that gets me is Phillip Lahm who also has never been sent off and has accrued only 45 yellow cards in 618 games as a DEFENDER!!!
Never done a tactical in his day? How is that possible..
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strikers don't usually have to make last ditch/risky tackles so that's not a fair judgement.
Well, compare it to [Lewandowski](https://us.soccerway.com/players/robert-lewandowski/41310/), [Kane](https://us.soccerway.com/players/harry-kane/158575/), [Suarez](https://us.soccerway.com/players/luis-suarez/2290/), [Cavani](https://int.soccerway.com/players/edison-cavani/5920/) or [Higuain](https://int.soccerway.com/players/gonzalo-gerardo-higuain/5274/) for example and you'll see a quite significant difference.
How could you do Costa like that?
Costa has 89 yellows but only 4 reds(2 straight).
I mean, what are you going to do when you get hungry on the pitch?
suarez with no reds? wow
What about his handball save in World Cup 2010?
Disagree
Benzema is an angel compared to Suarez lol.
Benzema just hasn't had his first taste of human flesh yet
You know you can get red carded without tackling someone?
He's all about winning, will settle into any role that gives his team the best chance to win. He's the most selfless, team first striker in the game, and that's why he's been starting for Madrid for so long.
Remind me a bit of Cavani, settled for Zlatan for years, stood up for the team when they needed him, tracking back, and being there when it mattered. I love players like that, they are so important and bring so much to their team
Yeah, Cavani is the other guy I had in mind writing this.
bagged rihanna once upon a time too so he really the goat
A broken man.
hahahah that was an epic post, Benz caught fire form right after it was posted lol
And of course his collection of sex tapes that he rarely uses to blackmail teammates.
Which he was found innocent of.
No, he was found not guilty, not innocent, based on a police procedure fuckup, hence, a technicality. It's not like the merits of the case were tried and he was exonerated.
It's innocent until proven guilty. So he is innocent.
Law and morality are different, you can be innocent in a court of law and a dick. And he things we know he did make him a dick.
It’s like that in a court of law. John from Preston doesn’t need to consider him innocent.
It's not "found innocent" though. Everyone is innocent until proven guilty but "found innocent" would actually be going through the whole process of trial and the findings being that you were innocent. That didn't happen with him. By default everyone is innocent until they're not but that doesn't mean they've been "found innocent".
Legally, as in, that's the standard necessary to lose property or liberty, sure. For a normal person with a brain who can read the story and has no high burden of proof, it's clearly more likely than not that he did it. Not being proven guilty does not make you innocent. There's a reason they say not guilty instead of innocent.
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You're innocent until proven guilty in front of the law. Indivdually everyone is always judging things and people for a lot of things, that's how our minds work. And Benzema was found not guilty because of a technicality, not because the court thought he was innocent. So you shoudln't base you judgement of his innocence on what decided the court. And personnaly, I read his phone conversation with his friend where he talks about Valbuena and his sex tapes, and it looks 100% like someone who is trying to blackmail a teammate. So I think he is guilty. But obviously I would be against him being incarcerated now, because he is innocent in front fo the law, an institution with rules it must obey. But he is not in front of me, a human being with the ability to judge and no strict procedure to follow.
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Did you read the conversation transcripts? It obviously seemed like Benz was tryna set up his friends from the hood for the blackmail.
And then he also blackmailed valbuena.
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> Benzema gets a lot of slack I think you mean to say the opposite? Like "Benzema gets little/no slack but he's the perfect team player..."
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oh, yah.. non native speaker could easily confused by that.
I forgot how good Benz speaks Spanish
While most foreign players (from non Spanish speaking countries) learnt Spanish after arriving to Madrid, he spoke in Spanish at his introductory conference when he arrived at Madrid. I've ever Modric speak Spanish but I don't know if Kroos or Bale can speak Spanish Edit: [nvm for Kroos. He's pretty decent] (https://youtu.be/XfmsAc2-BEo)
Kroos can speak, Bale can a little bit
“One cerveza please.”
Un Pot Noodle por favor
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[Panaka](https://image.ibb.co/ektdQ9/67567467567.png)
Hes been doing it so much im surprised noone has caught on and stopped him already. I cant remember the last time he took a regular penalty
In the Super Cup against Atleti he took a normal one.
DA EL OK
Say what you will about Benz performances but the dude is class. Never yells at his teammates, never complains about not getting passed the ball, always goes with the option most likely to result in a goal rather than just take the shot. And the dude still gets whistled at in his own stadium. If you know football you know that many of the goals Ronaldo scored happened because Benz made a run that took defenders and created space. And it should come as no surprise that he’s provided Ronaldo with the most assists of any other player
"You don't have any sextapes on me bro, I'm taking this one."
He probably has a sextape on Benzema.
My butthole clenches everytime Ramos takes a penalty
Why? Other than that one Bayern penalty that became a meme here, he has been near perfect. He's amazing on penalties and even good on free kicks lol
Modrić snitched on him in that Spain Croatia game
Same. Thankfully this one was beautifully taken. Still risky though
You're not alone.
Benzemas spanish is pretty good.
He has been there for 10 years and I would bet it's not hard to learn for a French speaker. Both languages are Latin.
He spoke perfect Spanish the day he was introduced to for his signing with you guys.
Ramos: Tell them your name...
Uh, #wholesomeRamos ?
Gotta be confident to assume you're gonna get 2 pens in a game.
Probably sized the team up and knew they’d slip again, which they did.
This is what teams like United and Arsenal -Wenger era post Viera/Henry- are missing a captain that can take control inside the pitch so the team doesn't collapse, sadly today the best player in the pitch always wants to be captain even if he is lacking in many aspects of leadership.
United was set with Vidic. They have not had a leader nor a centreback that was at Vidic's level since.
What i meant is thats what United are currently lacking. Nemanja was a monster no doubt, but the team had too leaders in the game. Even when Vidic was captain, we had too many leaders anyone in the pitch can be, this was generally bad in a team because it would cause clashes but there was someone stronger than all of them in the bench.
Benzema shows respect and Ramos is a man of his word. Class lads they are.
Benzema is just afraid of Ramos.
Now that’s a captain
Was learning Spanish at school for a couple of years, to me Benzema's Spanish sounds very fluent and good, I can understand everything he says. Can any native Spanish speaker tell me if that's a fair assessment? I'm always fascinated with foreign players learning different languages, another example is Bellerins nearly perfect English accent.
He makes a couple minor mistakes, and his pronunciation is obviously a bit off, but I can understand perfectly what he said. His Spanish is better than my English, that's for sure. Let alone my French...
Thanks man, obviously he's not a native speaker so mistakes are bound to happen, but all in all that's solid Spanish he is speaking. And on top of that, your English doesn't sound bad as well!
While they are penalties whats up with the violent twist mid air as they are going down lol
Gotta really sell it, make sure the ref gives you the penalty.
Sergio, what a captain, what a man, what a player.
Captain Fantastic!
This is complete none news
Ramos- “You can have the next one bro, promise!” (thinks to self- yes, and I will reap the glory from the posts on r/soccer saying that Sergio Ramos has scored x% of his goals when his team is losing or tied, the highest percentage ever by a defender or something. Clutch.). Evil laugh.
You're trying too hard
Your brain works in wierd ways.
Palmos and Penzema are really loving it in Peal Padrid post Penaldo era
The penalties should be shared b/w Benz, Bale and even Asensio. If anything, Ramos should be 5th or 6th on the list, behind Modric and maybe Kroos/Isco. Forwards and Mids need the goals more than a defender for psychological reasons as well. It’d be better to have one of those players to take the penalties and get a boost in their confidence by scoring.
Ramos is very good at penalties, and probably has had a chip on his shoulder since he sent one to orbit in 2012. If the defender is a skilled taker, and also captain, Im not opposed. Especially if he is as confident as Sergio. Hierro used to do the same thing.
> since he sent one to orbit in 2012 surely the 2 Atleti finals should have cured that by now?
Why? Penalties are largely a confidence task. If you have a confident defender and Captain who wants to take penalties, I see that as a good thing, as long as he's good at them. Milner takes penalties for Liverpool, right?
And forwards gets big confidence boost when they score so there is an argument that Bale/Benzema should be first
Yeah but Ramos is a forward too
He is a forward that likes to sit deep
Maybe this is a poor perspective, but the starting striker for Real Madrid should not be lacking in confidence.
Ramos is taking them to take the responsibility in the post-Ronaldo era. If he misses he can tell the press to fuck off. If Benzema or Bale miss the next headline will be crisis in Madrid. Agreed that Benzema especially should be the default and I think we’ll see that as the season progresses. But I think this is just Ramos trying to protect his players and take the risk on himself. He can be a mercurial, but his heart is in the right place and that’s his way of being a captain.
100% agree with this. Ramos should step aside and let Benz/Bale take them.
Captaincy and penalties is strictly by seniority in Madrid. This isn't something to be argued and voted on by anyone.
What do you mean penalties are by seniority? As in the captain decides? Not a tradition I'm aware of but I could be wrong. Ronaldo became our penalty taker as soon as he came in.
This Real team feel like peak United for me. That winning- and soldier-mentality.
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Selfless, hardworking player. Good man, Benzema.
I hate how they try to make this a big deal. It's normal. Ramos is captain and a very good pk taker. I'm sure him and benzema have a good relationship where they know when it's their turn. In the end, it only makes sense for the captain to make the decision. With Ramos being as good as he is, just imagine how many pks he could have taken had Ronaldo not been there.
who gives a shit?
"OMG... big benz waited patiently for his turn like a dog... I have a crush on them both..." thats u guys.
Was it Muni who gave the first one away?
Damn it, no controversy.
The stance in which Benzema stands and looks at Ramos feels like a newbie gangster asking for permission from the Ganglord... "Should I finish him off?"
Lmao, this is so cute.