Ramos is driven to better Barca
REAL MADRID captain Sergio Ramos believes winning the Champions League would top Barcelona’s domestic double.
Fierce rivals Barca wrestled the La Liga title back from Real on Sunday with four games to spare having already lifted the Copa del Rey.
Ramos and his team-mates have endured a difficult league season, although they have the chance to make amends with another European success. The club are aiming for a fourth Champions League title in five seasons and, ahead of tonight’s semi-final second leg against Bayern Munich, which they lead 2-1, Ramos believes that achievement would be superior to Barca’s.
“Barca have had a great year, they have won two titles; winning the cup has merit and the league even more,” said Ramos.
“But winning the Champions League is a positive that is equivalent to those two or even more.”
Bayern were the last team to win the competition three years in a row, during the Seventies, and Ramos is driven by the chance to make history.
“We are making the impossible easy,” he said. “It seems easy that we could win three in a row, that motivates us in the day to day to keep breaking records.”
In addition to the damaging first-leg defeat, Bundesliga champions Bayern also lost key men Jerome Boateng and Arjen Robben to injury.
Vice-captain Thomas Muller has urged the club’s squad players to step up and seize their opportunities.
“Now others have to jump in the breach and get ready,” said Muller.