Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane has always defended Benzema and given opportunities to the striker who is far from his goalscoring best. The Frenchman has the worst numbers out of all the ex Real Madrid players who competed with him for the position which is practically permanently his.
Benzema can't buy a goal at the moment and that is made clear by his numbers in 11 league matches and 4 in the Champions League. In 15 matches in total, Zidane's compatriot has managed just two goals and two assists in a total of 861 minutes played.
If we compare that to the record of the players who weren't able to dethrone and replace Benzema in the starting eleven, the Frenchman definitely comes out on the bottom, according to stats from Spanish publication 'AS'.
In the case of Gonzalo Higuain, who came under criticism during his time in Madrid, the Argentinian has 38 more goals than Benzema in the five seasons since leaving Madrid. The Frenchman has only managed to equal Higuain's goals haul during his first year in Italy, in which both strikers notched 24 goals. Now, Higuain wears the No. 9 shirt for Serie A champions Juventus.
If that's not enough, Mariano, who decided to leave Madrid in the summer to try and make his name elsewhere in Europe, has also outperformed his former team-mate. The 24-year-old striker has two goals more than Neymar and can be pleased with the 9 goals he has managed so far in Ligue 1. What's more, Mariano has the best goalscoring average than the other former Madrid men, with a goal every 111 minutes.
Morata played two seasons at the Bernabeu with Benzema and he bettered the Frenchman on in both years. Although he was always understudy, Morata had a better goalscoring rate than his French counterpart during his time in the Spanish capital. So far this season, Morata has found the back of the net eight times, included some big goals, such as the one this weekend against Manchester United, which has cemented his place as a firm fan's favourite among the Chelsea faithful.
Javier Hernandez at West Ham and Basaksehir's Emmanuel Adebayor are those who are closest to Benzema, but even they haven't performed worse than the Frenchman. Both of them have four goals so far in the Premier League and Turkish League respectively.
These comparisons don't make good reading for the out-of-form striker, and they demonstrate the crisis he is currently suffering.