You forgot to add vini. Sometimes, valverde was also helping real madrid to leave from difficult situation. Rodrygo can come anytime as a savior for real madrid. He was always making an unpredictable movement that was helping real madrid to win the crucial match. Rodrygo is such an underrated player. I remember when rodrygo was making dramatic goal against manchester city which is very good. Real madrid was able winning UCL last seas after it was destroying manchester city through epic comeback.
Your obviously on point about Rodrygo, he's just been the man for Real Madrid just when the game needed goals the most. He did to Manchester City last season and it would be interesting to see what the Pep Guardiola side would do about that. Real Madrid just have these qualities in there ranks. They come in and make a huge difference. It's not been more of Benzema at the time but, his influence on the pitch is sure to throw Manchester off balance. The only goodnews for Manchester City is that, they were able to manage that away game hood and would be playing from a home side this time, a familiar ground with fans to cheer them yo success if they can manage it.