in spain everybody was shocked at how benzema failed during the euro champs
as a result, it seems that higuain will stay and try to be the number 1 striker
as i said, mourinho will probably still use benzema, but more as a winger, like he did with etoo in internazionale
here is the cover of "marca", newspaper about real madrid and football :
it says that higuain will try to take benzema's place
meanwhile, benzema will probably be nominated for the golden ball
which is ridiculous because he is usueless
the french media tries to hype him to sell their newspapers, but i also learnt that in other countries they also act like benzema had a fantastic season and did better than higuain
i already showed that french newspaper "l'equipe" said that unlike ronaldo, benzema did not choke in the big matches
that is so untrue, that actually one can say that this season benzema didn't score any important goal for real madrid
the most important matches of the season for real madrid were:
*on the 29th of october, real sociedad vs real madrid: it was the match in which real madrid took the lead in the spanish league, a difficult 1-0 win abroad, the only goal of the match was scored by higuain - not the prettiest goal, but an important one:
http://youtu.be/yPvx7NVtCNY
*on the 17th of december, against sevilla, after a 3-1 defeat against real madrid, so a very important match: ronaldo scored 3 goals and was the man of the match
*on the 21st of april, against barcelona: it was the most important match in their season, and ronaldo scored one of the 2 goals and was the man of the match, benzema didn't score
*then the victory against athletic bilbao where they won the title officially: higuain scored the first goal, a very beautiful one:
http://youtu.be/W5BT2XG30Dg
*in champions league, benzema failed to score in both legs of the quarter finals against bayern munchen, and higuain didn't play more than 10 minutes each match
real madrid lost (ronaldo scored though)
higuain on the other hand, has scored some of the most important goals in real madrid history (recent history at least), that's why he's more popular with the fans than benzema
the propaganda about benzema says that higuain chokes in the big matches, but it's not true
for example this goal in the 200-2009 season, he scored twice in the biggest match, where real madrid was forced to win to keep hopes to win the league (they didn't manage to win the league despite this victory), including this goal in the lasts seconds of the game while the match was tied:
[video=youtube_share;OseCiNpKtRs]http://youtu.be/OseCiNpKtRs[/video]
this goal is considered the most important and beautiful goal in real madrid's (recent) history
he also scored the goal that allowed real madrid to win the league in 2007-2008:
http://youtu.be/DgmvrqI3yIo
there is also a stat from this season about how many points benzema's goals allowed real madrid to win:
benzema's goals alowed real madrid to win 7 points, and higuain's goals 16
http://www.le-sport-et-moi.net/inde...bataille-de-chiffres-&catid=19:news&Itemid=14
and he did this while playing less than benzema (more than 500 minutes difference) and still managed to score more than benzema
higuain scored 1 goal every 70 minutes, that's one of the bests ratio in europe
another ridiculous thing that i read is that benzema fights more while higuain just stays in the penalty area, waiting for an oportunity
that's also false
that's exactly what was said about benzema actually, he was very criticised because he said that he was not here to defend, and that he was only interested in scoring goals
here are some goals that higuain created himself:
http://youtu.be/CC-_EtiP9Ek (another legendary goal for higuain, a very important one)
http://youtu.be/t1x4xr3TZDo
http://youtu.be/hc1JDwUbny4
a spanish pundit said that higuain wouldn't have spent 4 matches whithout scoring a goal like benzema did at the euro champs
because yes, meanwhile higuain is excellent with his national team and scores important goals in qualifications to the 2014 world cup ( he is the 2nd top scorer of the qualifications, he has 4 goals, 1 goal more than messi)
by the way my friend who does videos about benzema's misses is working on a new one...9 minutes long
he showed it to me, it's very impressive the amount of easy goals that benzema misses