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#2 The team has not won in 4 games
Can you imagine a team with Cristiano Ronaldo going four games without a win? Never! And more so when that club is Real Madrid. The 33-year-old and Los Blancos were a perfect match for nine years but his departure has exposed certain frailties in the team.
Many claimed that with Ronaldo gone, the likes of Gareth Bale and Karim Benzema would be liberated. Whatever that meant, it is now obvious that both players are not in the league of the Portuguese, let alone his level.
It’s now been four games and Real Madrid are yet to win even one. The poor run began with a 3-0 loss to Sevilla; then a dull 0-0 draw with rivals Atletico Madrid; before successive 1-0 defeats to CSKA Moscow and Deportivo Alaves followed in the UEFA Champions League and LaLiga respectively.
It is not as if Madrid failed to create chances in all these games. Actually, they did, but they just lacked the firepower in attack to score the goals. With Ronaldo, surely some of these chances would have ended at the back of the net. Without him, this poor run smacks of regression for Los Blancos.
