It is true that the 2022/23 season is not going well for Karim Benzema. To date, he has suffered five physical setbacks, all five of them muscular, which have kept him out for 77 days. He has only been able to play 57 percent of the games for Real Madrid (12 out of 21). The shadows that surrounded him in the days leading up to the World Cup have given way to the blinding light of the public display of the images of his latest muscle injury.
It would have been enough, perhaps, to keep the pulse of truthful information to undo the confusion that currently surrounds the Benzema case and his hasty departure from the World Cup in Qatar. The facts are clear. On November 2, he reappeared with 26 minutes against Celtic. He felt discomfort, muscle fatigue, and was absent from Real Madrid‘s last two matches before the break.
Rumors arose that he was saving himself for the World Cup, which did not benefit his image or that of his club. On November 19, with France in Qatar, he suffered a muscle injury in his left quadriceps. He is right-footed and uses this muscle to power his shot.
It is true that an MRI is a complementary test and that a clinical examination would be necessary to give a meaningful opinion on the injury. But from what can be seen in the leaked images, he presented a tear of the fascia that surrounds the muscle and edema of the muscle close to it. In other words, no muscle fiber involvement.
On paper, it should have taken 21 days to recover. And so it happened. On December 10, he joined Real Madrid while France played the semi-finals on the December 14.
A day later, Karim played a friendly against Leganes while France was already preparing for the final… without him. Bottom line: Yes, Benzema could have played in the World Cup.
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