Beijing time on July 18, less than a month left before the announcement of the shortlist, the famous website "90min" on this year's Golden Ball Award 30 candidates as well as the final ranking of the prediction, the results of Benzema unquestionably won the award!
This year's Golden Globe awards have been reformed to look at the period from August last year to July this year, with the nominees for the awards announced on August 12 and the prizes awarded on October 17, independent of performance.
As last season's champion and winner, Benzema is the favourite for the Ballon d'Or and is very much in the running to win it for the first time in his career, and the site has put the striker at the top of the list.
Second in the predictions is De Bruyne, who helped win last season's title. Third place goes to Mane, who moved from this summer, while his former teammate Salah is fourth. Fifth place goes to Lewin, who just moved from Bayern.
Sixth place goes to
s, seventh was Real Madrid's Thibaut Courtois, and eighth was his teammate Modric. Ninth was Manchester City's Ruben Diaz, while 10th was Liverpool's Virgil van Dijk.
In addition, Real Madrid winger Vinicius is predicted to be 12th, Asia One is 23rd, Liverpool newcomer Nunez 24th and Manchester City newcomer 28th.
It's worth noting that the five-time Ballon d'Or winner, ranked just 30th in the predictions, while the seven-time Ballon d'Or winner, didn't even make it among the 30-man shortlist.