Real Madrid Boss Zinedine Zidane Is Wrong To Persist With Cristiano Ronaldo And Karim Benzema

Invariably, the big-name players at any club are always handed a little longer to get their act together when they’re not doing the business. It might not be fair, but it’s just the way it is.
Nowhere else is there a better reflection of this than at Real Madrid, where both Karim Benzema and Cristiano Ronaldo are enduring their poorest campaigns since they signed for the club in 2009.
Though the Frenchman has been the subject of boos and whistles from the Santiago Bernabeu crowd, Ronaldo should really be looking over his shoulder too.

A player that wasn’t long ago crowned FIFA’s ‘The Best’ and who is odds-on to win another Ballon d’Or, the Portuguese has had more than 50 shots on goal in La Liga and scored just once.
His 1.8% conversion rate is actually the worst in Europe’s top five leagues.
It makes a mockery of Zinedine Zidane’s claim that both players are, for all intents and purposes, ‘untouchable.’

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