That front 3 was arguably the most lethal front 3 the sport had ever seen. Their name numbers were staggering. They were putting 3 past a juventus side Madrid couldn’t break down
Madrid were without their most key player in Modric against Juve (and most of the 2nd half of the campaign, among many other injuries), yet they went out due to one goal. Actually Barca got a big favor from ref in 2015 final, when it was 1-1, a clear PK (by Alves on Pogba) was not given to Juve, and Barca scored on the transition afterwards, the 3rd goal came late when they were all out attacking due to that refereeing mistake.
Meanwhile same MSN -best in history- with the same manager didn't do jack shit in 180 mins against Juve conceding 3 and scoring ZERO, yet Madrid scored 4 past them in as a one-sided final as you can see, and unlike the previous version of Juve, this one that had conceded only two in the whole CL campaign. Basically Juve conceded twice as many goals against Madrid, as they had conceded in a whole year in CL.
and 5 past a Bayern side that had Neuer.
That tie finished 5-3, and it could've been closer as the game was about to finish (like Roma-Pool, but to a lesser degree), not something you could call "put 5 past them" while Madrid won their tie against Bayern 5-0 just one year before that with a better Bayern that included Kroos, so if anything it was underwhelming by MSN.
That’s because we were rubbish in the first half of the season.
How were they rubbish when they had won all their games before the Clasico and then got their asses handed to them and were put back on their perch? That's just revisionist history.
If you want to go down that route, Zidane’s Real lost 0-3 at home to Barca this season.
That 3-0 was too flattering though, it was all about Madrid missing chance after chance (esp. 1st half where they were the better side) and Barca using their chances, and ofc. the red. Meanwhile the 3-1 win by Madrid in 2014-15 was as one sided as say a 5-0 or that 6-2.
In 2015, MSN were absolutely insane. We beat the French champions, English champions, German champions and Italian champions in our route to CL glory. We didn’t rely much on luck any of those games. We outplayed everyone in our path.
Had Modric not been injured, Madrid would've gone past Juve into the final, and the chances were it'd have been 50-50 at best for Barca, Madrid had the better h2h, and even in the 2nd Clasico Madrid was the better side till when Modric got injured for good.
