{"id":11477,"date":"2022-04-07T01:27:11","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T19:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=211130"},"modified":"2022-04-07T01:28:51","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T19:58:51","slug":"another-game-another-record-for-karim-benzema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/another-game-another-record-for-karim-benzema\/","title":{"rendered":"Another game, another record for Karim Benzema"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Be it in La Liga or the Champions League, the Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema has managed to inscribe his name on top. The No. 9 breaks the record for most goals scored by a Frenchman in a single Champions League campaign. His brace for the Los Blancos\u2019 1st leg UCL fixture against Chelsea provided him to achieve the climacteric.<\/p>\n<p>Benzema scored two goals for the 13-times European champions on Thursday both coming by beautiful headers within three minutes that were too much to handle for the opponent\u2019s goalkeeper.<\/p>\n<p>The France international has now netted 36 of total goals this season for Real Madrid. Benzema has played a vital role throughout the season as well as whenever the team needed him. The 34-year-old from France now achieves the record of the fourth player in history to strike 80+ goals in the competition.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u26aa\ufe0f Karim Benzema becomes just the fourth player in history to score 80+ goals in the Champions League \ud83d\udc4f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UCL?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UCL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2oLxdhjKil\">pic.twitter.com\/2oLxdhjKil<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 UEFA Champions League (@ChampionsLeague) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChampionsLeague\/status\/1511788275786203143?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 6, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The forward has now scored 36 goals for Real Madrid this season, the most ever by him for the Whites. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":33947,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}