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ZIDANE PRAISE BENZEMA AS MANCHESTER CITY BATTLE PSG

French international Karim Benzema scored a spectacular goal in the Champions League against Chelsea after Christian Pulisic had put Chelsea ahead in the 14th minutes.

Benzema who now has netted 71 goal in the Champions League showed class of importance as he drew level with Raul, Madrid former star striker as the joint-fourth leading score, scoring in the half mark hour in the opening leg of the semi-final,

Chelsea had started strongly dominating play with good interchange of passes pushing Madrid to do much of defending in the early part the first half. But the team missed real opportunities to add to Pulisic 14th minute goal.

Chelsea brilliant performance despite missing chances to score declined Madrid home record of at least scoring two goals in home matches in the current Champions League campaign. The Madrid team has scored 14 goals so far at home in their quest to be at the final.

“Karim is amazing and I am happy for him, but I am not surprised for what he is doing every game” Zidane said to reporters  

The Frenchman former captain and World Cup winner, also expressed his happiness with his players for keeping faith in what they are doing with the great comeback to level scored at 1-1,

“There are difficulties, of course, because we have an amazing team in front of us and they are Champions League semi-finals.”  Zidane said, He praised the Chelsea team that kept their momentum high in the match, and amazingly his team suffered before regaining strength, especially in the second half.

 “But I am very happy for all of the players, because we are alive. We know we have to go to London and score goals in order to win the game.”

Meanwhile, Karim Benzema has scored six goals in the current Champions League campaign working to meet Lionel Messi 36 goals and Christiano Ronalndo’s record of 35 goals scoring against more different opponents in Champions League.

In the other semi-final match, Wednesday Manchester City will battle French club Paris Saint-Germain in Paris. The English club set to be crown Premier League Champions in England had saw of Borussia Monchengladbach and Burussia Dortmund to reach the last four.

Obviously, with the strength of the Guardiola’s team and should they get better of PSG, the English elite club will battle against either Chelsea or Real Madrid in the final.

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