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Real Madrid midfielder Marco Asensio reacts after his club was eliminated from the UEFA Champions League by Ajax at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid on March 5, 2019.Trying to hold back tears, Dani Carvajal used a dirty word to describe Real Madrid’s dreadful season.The right back spoke his mind in a post-game interview after another humiliating home loss, a 4-1 rout against Ajax that ended the team’s reign as Champions League champions.
Madrid decided to play it cool when Ronaldo left for Juventus last year, not making any high-profile signings to make up for his absence. Club president Florentino Perez kept faith in the forwards already in place — Karim Benzema, Gareth Bale, Marco Asensio and Lucas Vazquez — and hoped that youngsters such as Vinicius Junior, Mariano Diaz and Brahim Diaz could provide some of the spark the team lost when Ronaldo left.
Ronaldo led Real Madrid to three straight Champions League titles, and four in five seasons before leaving to join Juventus.With him on the team, Madrid hadn’t lost a Champions League knockout series since the 2015 semifinals against Juventus. It had reached at least the semifinals in eight straight seasons and hadn’t failed to make it past the last 16 since 2010, a year after the Portugal forward joined from Manchester United.
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