Karim Benzema

No seasonal row in tracked leagues — check recent matches below.

Season rates refresh weekly · peer percentiles from league cohorts · match log ~6h after FT.

Availability

Injury & sideline log · current status + two-year history

• unknown injury

  May 2026 – ongoing

  39d · 2 missed

• Back problems

  Apr 2026 – ongoing

  14d · 0 missed

• Toe injury

  Apr 2026 – Apr 2026

  3d · 1 missed

• Adductor injury

  Feb 2026 – Mar 2026

  11d · 2 missed

• unknown injury

  May 2025 – May 2025

  12d · 2 missed

RT estimated values · updated every few days · may lag breaking news by one revision.

No logged appearances this season in our tracked competitions yet.

W/D/L uses final score for the player's club that day. Match rows sync within ~6h · ratings may lag on some PL fixtures (Sportmonks column drift) · event minutes ~1h.

AI scouting report

Benzema remains one of football's most elegant paradoxes: a striker who functions more like a quarterback than a poacher, yet still finds the net with genuine top-20% efficiency in a league that has humbled bigger names. His aerial dominance is genuinely elite—top 5% among attackers—which is counterintuitive for a player whose game has always read as cerebral rather than physical. That aerial threat, combined with top-10% progressive passing, makes him a pivot for entire attacking structures rather than a passenger waiting for chances. His shots-per-90 rank in the league's top 10%, meaning the volume is there even if the legs aren't what they were.