The champions league is Real madrid’s last resort.Ajax Frenken De Jong (right) to challenge Real madrid’s Luka Modricin on Tuesday in the Champions league. AOP

there are two ugly home losses to arch-enemy for barcelo teddy bear. Cup game, Real Madrid dominated the opening period of the events, but collapse into their own ineffective and 0-3-humiliation.

the League El Clásico fall flat completely pancake, when the home team was unable to put Barça-defense even any pressure.

Only a few days difference Real Madrid to bury their championship hopes in La Liga as the Spanish king’s cup tomorrow. Though neither race has not in recent years been favored White. Madrid has been celebrating the league title just twice in the past decade, and the last cupkannua off in the spring of 2014.

So the fact that Madrid all our hopes are now just the Champions league, not quite so desperate to throw than any other club.

Or just any other club.

ronaldo to miss

Real Madrid has won the Champions league (and its predecessor the European cup) a record 13 times. The last success either does not need to search very far: the team has won the big-eared-pot as many as four times in the last five years – and three times in a row.

Although no one can deny that the team would miss the last in the finals with the Cristiano Ronaldo .

his kind of players would be needed in all teams. Cristianolle is impossible to find a replacement, this minute planet for the best selected Luka Modric admitted in the press conference.

– Follow the company, that the attack on the head of the players would collectively Cristianon tasks, but it’s not easy. Cristiano, however, did 50 goals in a season.

the Portuguese in addition as head coach Zinedine Zidane left the mission in Kiev in the final match. Although now at the helm is shut another ex-player, Santiago Solari , rotary Madrid-the pest over the entire period of wild speculation.

One of the most familiar of the candidates is through the 2011-12 championship of magic José Mourinho .

– This club has always been more candidates than Julia Roberts , Solari laughed journalists.

But if Roberts would prefer Solar or Mourinho?

– It’s a good question. You’ll have to ask him yourself.

“Key via”

Madrid has appeared in the Champions league quarterfinals now eight seasons in a row, and not many people believe that today the Santiago Bernabéulle visit the Ajax no longer be able to turn the match pairs to their advantage.

– Ajax … – … nothing to lose, making the fight dangerous. They play the same way home and away in the field, so we must be on our guard. In front is a difficult 90 minutes, Modric forecast.

the Front can be up to 120 minutes, if Ajax win the same numbers (2 to 1) than the Spanish left three weeks ago.

– Champions league is our utmost priority. This match is the key to the whole season, Modric will continue.

Tuesday night’s second match a couple of feel advance yet clear. Tottenham’s run to the Wembley scoreboard, 3-0-won readers Borussia from dortmund, and is clearly in the driver’s seat for the team in the face right now westfalen stadium.

But certainly in North London it is known that the group stage Dortmund knocked out on home soil extremely tight defensive game in the name of swear Atléticon as high as 4-0.

Monaco got to the same place his ass kicked 3-0 by the version of today took the match in a couple of overtime.

We can’t talk about it (Atlético-profits). Every match is different. The first match has already been played, and we are now in this situation, Borussia-coach Lucien Favre said.

we Know that we know how to do paints, but we have to play intelligently.

Favrt referring to by ”intelligence” means that Tottenham in any case should get the away goals. Indeed, it then the bar would rise to the yellow on black too high.

the 20-year-old super promise Christian Pulisic is an uncertain game condition, but the opening movement of the rest have Marco Reus is ready to make the jump at least jämäminuuteista the field.

I Know, I wasn’t able to play yet a full 90-minute (Friday Augsburg-match). Now we need to see how the match goes, how I feel and what the coach has in mind, Reus rolled his.

Tottenham is a big favorite on the shortlist folder, but Dortmund is always dangerous. EPA/AOP