Somebody just pressed the panic button at the Santiago Bernabeu. The only striker in the team, at least the only one that Carlo Ancelotti has been counting on lately, is uncertain for the first match with Paris Saint-Germain.🚨| Reported by multiple reliable sources:Karim Benzema is a doubt for the next games against Villarreal and PSG. His recovery has slowed down. pic.twitter.com/xS2Mi4gfE5— Madrid Xtra. (@MadridXtra) February 9, 2022 Karim Benzema’s recovery is not going according to plan. The French national team player was injured during the match with Elche two and a half weeks ago, at first it seemed that it was a minor injury. However, a week before the first match of the eighth finals of the Champions League at the Princes’ Park, the best scorer of the Primera is still not on the field. Doctors and physiotherapists of the Madrid club, together with Benzema, have been working on his recovery since the match with Elche, and it was expected that Karim would return as early as the weekend to visit Villarreal. However, as he felt muscle pain again last week and is still training separately from the team, the Spanish media suspect that Ancelotti will risk recovering from an injury that has not been completely healed.Barça’s demise through strange numbers: 9.5 million USD for a lawyer and 45 million for Griezmann’s sister?!The idea is to add Benzema to the first team for tomorrow’s training (or Friday at the latest), in order to let the Frenchman get some minutes on the field and ‘feel the terain’, but the situation is such that his presence at Madrigal is practically ruled out. Moreover, Marca adds that he is not one hundred percent sure about the first match with Paris Saint-Germain next Tuesday. He may play in that match, but almost certainly won’t be in the starting 11. (2.75) RAYO VALLECANO (3.05) BETIS (2.75)It will therefore be interesting to see who will replace Benzema in the attack. At the end of January, Ancelotti allegedly rejected the offers of Arsenal and Everton to lend them Luka Jović, which was supposed to be a sign that the Serbian center forward would be the second option in Real’s attack, but against Granada and Bilbao, in Benzema’s absence, Marco Asensio and Isco were put upfront.
