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Benzema and the rating (Reuters)
Karim Benzema won the Ballon d’Or this week in the most convincing way possible thanks to his double in the Real Madrid uniform, in which he also finished as the king of goals in the Champions League (15) and the Spanish League (27). In Spain it was revealed today (Friday) that Benzema finished with 549 points, a gap of 356 points from Sadio Mane in second place.
Kevin de Brauna (175) and Robert Lewandowski who remained outside the podium (170) were close. Benzema’s gap is not the biggest of all time, since in 2016 Cristiano Ronaldo won by a higher margin than his runner-up Messi (745 points compared to 316 points). Of the 93 reporters who voted in the Ballon d’Or, 89 chose Benzema in first place.
Also at Real Madrid, Thibaut Courtois finished with 82 points, Vinicius Jr. with 61 and Luka Modric with 20. The only reporters who did not vote for Benzema in first place were from Senegal (Mane), Egypt (Salah), Holland (Salah) and Slovenia (De Brauna). . Everyone else put the French at the top.
