Back Ahmed, Karim Benzema. The French captain, Karim Benzema, gave a wonderful performance and succeeded in leading Al-Ittihad to a wide victory over its host Al-Ettifaq, with a score of (4-0), at Ego Stadium, as part of the twelfth round of the Saudi Roshen League.

Karim Benzema scored Al-Ittihad's second goal in the 53rd minute, after taking advantage of goalkeeper Rodak's save on a shot from Dutchman Steven Bergwijn, and Benzema followed the ball into the net.

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The brilliance of Benzema, who returned from injury, contributed to leading Al-Ittihad to its eighth consecutive victory, and the eleventh in the Roshen League, this season, raising his score to 33 points, at the top of the competition.

While Karim Benzema missed scoring in only two matches against Al-Khuloud and Riyadh, in the first and eighth rounds, the Frenchman made up for that by scoring a hat-trick against Al-Wahda in the third round, and with his scoring against Al-Ettifaq, Benzema has scored 9 goals during the 9 matches in which he participated with Al-Ittihad in the Saudi Roshan League, 100%.

Benzema played a more than wonderful match, after scoring the second goal, and making two assists for the first goal scored by N'Golo Kante, and the fourth by Steven Bergwijn, as the performance of the Al-Ittihad captain was distinguished by his deployment in the agreement area, between retreating back in order to receive the ball and building... Attacks, opening spaces for his teammates to attack, and being on the right and left sides.

Benzema almost scored another goal for Al-Ittihad in the match, which he scored in the 27th minute after a wonderful attacking statement, with the ball being passed between Abdelilah Hawsawi, Houssem Aouar and N’Golo Kante, then the Al-Ittihad captain, before the referee decided to cancel the goal due to offside.

Benzema scored his ninth goal, sharing second place scorer in the Saudi Roshen League, with Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo, captain of Al-Nasr, behind Serbian Aleksandar Mitrovic, Al-Hilal striker, who leads the table with 12 goals.

After missing 4 matches due to a muscle injury, Karim Benzema returned, proving that he is the absolutely indispensable leader of Al-Ittihad in the team’s journey towards competing for the Roshen League title.

Over the course of 74 minutes, in which Benzema participated, before being replaced by player Saleh Al-Shehri, he scored a goal, made two assists, and shot two shots on goal, and one outside the goal.

Across 40 touches of the ball, Karim Benzema made 28 correct passes, made only one mistake, and made 3 key passes to his teammates, as well as creating two clear chances, and delivering 3 long balls that were 100% successful.

On the other hand, Benzema only won 3 out of 8 direct confrontations with Al-Ettifaq players, lost possession of the ball 6 times, committed one mistake, and fell into the offside trap twice