Karim Benzema scored his 40th club goal of the season for Real Madrid during the first half of their Champions League semi-final first leg against Manchester City.Having bagged hat-tricks to knock Paris Saint-Germain and Chelsea out in previous rounds, Real desperately needed Benzema to deliver again after City took a 2-0 lead inside 11 minutes.Deliver he did as the Frenchman found the net with his first shot.Ferland Mendy swung in a cross from the left and Benzema’s movement was too hot for Oleksandr Zinchenko.