Real Madrid's failure to replace Cristiano Ronaldo's goals has contributed to their struggles this season, says midfielder Luka Modric.

Real, chasing a fourth European title in a row, host Ajax in the second leg of their Champions League last-16 tie on Tuesday having won 2-1 in Amsterdam.

But they come into the game on the back of three consecutive home defeats - including two by Barcelona last week.

"Given what he did for us and this club, we miss Cristiano," said Modric.
Ronaldo was top scorer, or joint top scorer, in the past six Champions League seasons. He scored a club record 450 goals in nine years before his £99m summer move to Juventus.

But they failed to sign a big-money replacement and only three of their players have scored more than five goals this season - Karim Benzema (20), out-of-favour Gareth Bale (13) and centre-back Sergio Ramos (11).

They have lost three of their last four games, 2-1 to Girona, 3-0 to Barcelona in the Spanish Cup semi-final second leg and 1-0 to Barca in La Liga to leave them 12 points off top.

"The club wanted the other players to make up for what Ronaldo did, divided between the strikers and that is not easy," Modric said.

"Cristiano scored 50 goals and you can't find someone today who scores that many. Some of us have to take a step forward and, while not scoring 50, what we need is two or three players who score 15, 20, or 10 goals and we don't have that.

"That is our biggest problem this year. For example against Barca in the cup we had many chances and when you don't take advantage your opponent punishes you."

Real captain Ramos starts a two-game ban for "for clearly receiving a yellow card on purpose" during the first leg - which the Spanish side were fortunate to win, while midfielder Marcos Llorente is injured.

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True. I said it before. For someone who has been a top football executive for many years, Florentino Perez acted with the naivety of a 5 year old with the whole Ronaldo issue. How can you sell your top scorer for the past 8-9 years and expect that goals will start falling from heaven without an equally top replacement? Foolish from Perez. With Ronaldo's exit, the fear factor around RM is gone. Who knows if this Perez foolishness was what Zidane saw ahead and decided to leave with his honor intact.

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Gawd this guy left and his shoes are just too big for every player's feet for now....


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Messi is your problem and ronaldo can't help you out. Even when he was there, una dey chop 5 0 for mourinho presence...
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Lols.. Modric to Juventus confirmed then.

If a team as big as Madrid can't feel the absence of a player as big as Ronaldo then Madrid is not big enough and ronaldo is not big enough


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Without C. Ronaldo, real madrid has no chance. You would think that after everything he did for the club, the Spaniards will appreciate his effort, instead they charged him for tax evasion. Modric is pretty good, he proved his worth in the worldcup and won the ballon D but we should not forget that in 1994 Rashidi Yekini became the first Nigerian player to score in the world cup tournament where we defeated Bulgaria 3-0.

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You dont see Messi and Ronaldo consistency everyday

By the way you players should buckle up , Messi didn't even score in the last two classicos and Barca won , you all should take responsibilities.... players go and come , Team remain the same

but they replaced him with a Courtois naaa

logon599:
True. I said it before. For someone who has been a top football executive for many years, Florentino Perez acted with the naivety of a 5 year old with the whole Ronaldo issue. How can you sell your top scorer for the past 8-9 years and expect that goals will start falling from heaven without an equally top replacement? Foolish from Perez. With Ronaldo's exit, the fear factor around RM is gone. Who knows if this Perez foolishness was what Zidane saw ahead and decided to leave with his honor intact.

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I still don't understand how thean play his politics

I know all will be well soon...

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Ronaldo will surely be missed in real Madrid for a very long time.

You can't replace his goals.

Except you are Messi.

Take away Ronaldo goals, and Madrid will have only 9 champions league trophy

It pains me a lot to see Real Madrid struggling, though I'm a Ronlado fan I supported real Madrid because of Ronaldo but the passion is still there. Replacing him will take time but it was a mistake to let him go. Perez should have get a replacement while Rinaldo is still there.

World best that can say this type of things about another player is that one world best?

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Messi is your problem and ronaldo can't help you out. Even when he was there, una dey chop 5 0 for mourinho presence...

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∆ That wasn't the bone of contention.... Just because he cited Barcelona as an instance...

He is talking about the team's current weakness....

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That Perez is a blunder to R. Madrid if not how a reasonable football administrator will allow his top scorer for 9 good year to leave without trying to persuade him just because of ego and stupidity of self pride at detriment of the club 's progress.

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True. I said it before. For someone who has been a top football executive for many years, Florentino Perez acted with the naivety of a 5 year old with the whole Ronaldo issue. How can you sell your top scorer for the past 8-9 years and expect that goals will start falling from heaven without an equally top replacement? Foolish from Perez. With Ronaldo's exit, the fear factor around RM is gone. Who knows if this Perez foolishness was what Zidane saw ahead and decided to leave with his honor intact.

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sell or he wanted to go

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Messi is your problem and ronaldo can't help you out. Even when he was there, una dey chop 5 0 for mourinho presence...

I don't know what Perez was thinking , he probably was hoping Asensio , would from nowhere become a goal machine , or Vinicius jnr, would start scoring 20 goals , or maybe Benzema that has been a second hand striker ,would start banging in goals ....
You let your main goal scorer of about 6 yrs leave your team , and there's no replacement..had they bought Kane , Icardi, Mbappe, or Griezmann,they would still feel the effects of Ronaldo's exit, but at least there would be a slight difference... creating chances with no body to score is baseless.. Messi is just having a swirl time against Real .....