Real Madrid Frenchman has been poor this season

Benzema and Danilo whistled by the Bernabeu

Luis Suarez, Florin Andone, Ruben Castro, Aritz Aduriz, Iago Aspas, Wiliam Jose, Gerard, Sandro, Gameiro...the list stretches to 16 strong players who've scored more times than Real Madrid's Karim Benzema, a player who has an extremely poor return in 2016/17 and managed just 0.80 shots per game.

In fact, his shot rate is only better than Valencia's Santi Mina, Granada's Kravets and Mahis at Leganes.

It's one of the worst moments Benzema has had as a Real Madrid player and his numbers are far from what is expected of him.

Above all, they are the worst numbers since he signed for the club in 2009.

Initially he suffered the typical problems of adaptation and had 0.96 shots on goal in all 27 games he took part in during 09/10.

Since then, he has always exceeded one shot per game and on some occasions, like last season, he stayed at 1.89 per game.

Hence, his failure this season is all the more striking.

With Cristiano Ronaldo now looking more of a centre forward than the Frenchman, it's forcing Benzema to play out wide, especially on the left.

Although the reality is that aggression in the area has never been his strong point, he prefers to assist his teammates from there.

It's quite remarkable that Gareth Bale, despite being injured for almost three months, has had 17 shots - five more than Benzema.

Currently, it's also the Frenchman's worst streak of the season.

He hasn't scored since playing Sevilla in the cup five games ago.

Since then, Sevilla, Malaga, Real Sociedad and Celta Vigo (twice) have been untroubled.

Clearly, he needs to find his scoring boots again because Real Madrid's success depends largely on it.