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- Nacho unfazed by their rise since 2018 Champions League final
- ‘Being favourites or not is really not important to us’
“They have won the Champions League and we have lost Cristiano Ronaldo,” Nacho Fernández conceded, but the Real Madrid defender has warned Liverpool that despite the shift in power on the eve of these clubs meeting for the first time since the 2018 final, Madrid’s history remains.
Real and resurrection go hand in hand. The side adrift domestically and on the verge of elimination in the Champions League group stages for the first time, and whose manager had the threat of losing his job hanging over him, are now unbeaten in 11 games, three points from the top in La Liga and determined to compete for the trophy they last lifted in Kiev. They host Liverpool, who they defeated that night, in the first leg of a quarter-final at Valdebebas on Tuesday.
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