Real Madrid are staring at the possibility of ending the 2025/26 season without any trophies after back-to-back defeats over the past week.
The 2-1 loss to RCD Mallorca last Saturday left them seven points behind leaders FC Barcelona in the La Liga title race.
A few days later, the Merengues lost to Bayern Munich by the same scoreline in the first leg of their UEFA Champions League quarter-finals, leaving their hopes of another European triumph hanging by a thread.
Alvaro Benito on Real Madrid’s problems
Speaking on El Larguero former Real Madrid midfielder Alvaro Benito pointed fingers at the club’s inconsistency as their biggest problem in recent years – highlighting how they have won more Champions League trophies than La Liga titles as evidence for the same.
“Why are there players, like Luka Modric , who have left Real Madrid surprisingly with more Champions League titles than league titles? How do you explain that?” he asked.
Real Madrid are under pressure after back-to-back losses. (Photo by Alex Caparros/Getty Images)
Continuing, the former midfielder turned commentator added: “Real Madrid struggle to be consistent and to be a team.
“To win long championships you need to be a team, work as a team and have clear patterns of behaviour where, even on bad days, you win because your collective behaviour is very good and because, obviously, you have more talent than 90% of the rivals you face in La Liga.”
Concluding, Benito stated that Real Madrid have been more reliant on ‘moments’ than consistency in the last 12-15 years, saying:
“If you fulfill your obligations as a team, you’ll win even the matches you play poorly. And Real Madrid , in the last 12 or 15 years, has struggled to be consistent and a cohesive team.
“What’s happened? They’ve had so many good players that, when they’ve focused on short tournaments, on specific moments, they’ve been a team with an outstanding performance that no other team in Europe has had. It’s almost inexplicable.”
