benzema started against germany, played 93 minutes, and didn't score
so now he has played 840 minutes in a row without scoring, 10 matches as titular, around 45 shots without scoring
if you know a striker that has done worse please tell me
i think that it might be a record
the french newspaper
l'equipe answered my question, at least for the french national team, in this newspaper:
the striker who has played the most matches in a row without scoring for france is, surprisingly :icon_eek: the black clown djibril cissé
i posted many times about him in the black misses thread and he played for QPR for the first part of this season, where he was a huge flop
ofcourse benzema is better than the black clown cissé, but benzema's record is impossible to beat, even for cissé
yes, as
l'equipe pointed out, cissé has played 15 matches in a row without scoring in the french national team, while benzema so far has done so for 10 matches
but the difference is that cissé at that time was not the number 1 striker, while benzema is
cissé has only started 5 matches out of these 15 matches, and only on 2 occasions he played more than 45 minutes
benzema has started 10 matches on the other hand
so i counted everything, and benzema as i said earlier has played 840 minutes without scoring over 10 matches (
l'equipe says 839)
for cissé i counted only 420 minutes without scoring, so 2 times less minutes
again, that's not because cissé was better than benzema, he was not, but that's because cissé was not a starter, while benzema is the undisputed titular (
l'equipe say that they agree about the fact that he must stay an undisputed titular) because he plays in real madrid, and as i said in this thread, benzema plays at real madrid not because of his "talent", but because he is arab and real madrid want arab/muslim players to target the middle-eastern audience
another interesting stat in this newspaper was that benzema had only 23.8% of his shots on target in 2012-2013