Luka Modric has explained why Real Madrid ‘miss’ Juventus forward Cristiano Ronaldo. “Finding a replacement is almost impossible.”
Ronaldo scored 450 goals in just 438 appearances for Madrid before his record-breaking move to Juve last summer, and Los Blancos have struggled domestically in their first season without the No 7.
“He’s a player any team would miss,” Modric said at a Press conference for his side’s Champions League last-16 second leg against Ajax on Tuesday.
Luka Modric has explained why Real Madrid ‘miss’ Juventus forward Cristiano Ronaldo. “Finding a replacement is almost impossible.”
Ronaldo scored 450 goals in just 438 appearances for Madrid before his record-breaking move to Juve last summer, and Los Blancos have struggled domestically in their first season without the No 7.
“He’s a player any team would miss,” Modric said at a Press conference for his side’s Champions League last-16 second leg against Ajax on Tuesday.
“Finding a replacement for Cristiano is almost impossible. What he’s done for this club… of course we miss Christian.
“What the club tried to do was let other players fulfil their roles in attack. And that’s not easy.
“Cristiano scored 50 goals and you can’t find someone who scores that much. Someone didn’t have to come forward with 50 goals but rather two three players who scored 10, 15 or 20 goals. We don’t have that this season.
“That's why I think [goalscoring] is our biggest problem this season. For example against Barcelona in the cup we made many chances, but a team with such quality can punish you.
“Cristiano isn’t here but we can’t complain about that for the next 10 years. The club have put their faith in other players like Gareth [Bale], [Marco] Asensio, Karim [Benzema], plus we’ve brought in Mariano and Vinicius, who’s doing very well for his age.
“However, things sometimes don’t go like we want them to. All we can do is work and go out together.
“Madrid will always be on the up. Sometimes we may not be, but we always come back.”