Real Madrid’s failure to finish in the Champions League Top-8 carries a double cost: no direct passage to the Round of 16 and no clear schedule over the next five weeks. A Top-8 finish would have spared Madrid the playoff round — they now face Benfica again — and given Álvaro Arbeloa something equally valuable: […]
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