Cristiano Ronaldo grabs best seat in the plane as Real Madrid fly in to face Tottenham at Wembley in the Champions League… but did he pay the extra £21.50 for more legroom?
Real Madrid superstars heading to London ahead of Champions League clash and the club's first ever game at Wembley
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REAL Madrid stars fly into London today for the legendary club’s first ever appearance at Wembley… and Cristiano Ronaldo has bagsied the seat with the extra leg-room.
Cristiano Ronaldo posted a snap of him sitting next to Toni Kroos on the club’s private jet.
And the pair are seated by the emergency exit door meaning they get a few more inches of space to stretch out their legs - usually worth an extra £21.50 extra on EasyJet.
And captain Sergio Ramos also shared a photo on Instagram of him wheeling his suitcase down a ramp at Madrid airport.
His photo with him next to club ambassador Roberto Carlos carries the caption ‘Wembley, here we go.’
Legendary Brazilian Carlos also shared a picture from inside the plane, sitting next to former Real Madrid superstar Raul.
Victory at Wembley, on their first ever visit to the home of football, would guarantee their qualification from Group H.
Madrid are flying to London on the back of a disastrous start to the domestic season in Spain, which culminated in last weekend’s shock 2-1 defeat at Girona.
Zinedine Zidane’s side are already eight points behind Barcelona after ten matches, a deficit they have never in their history overcome to win La Liga.
The Madrid newspapers have already written off Real’s hopes of landing another domestic title.
"Madrid vote no to La Liga", ran a headline on the website of daily newspaper Marca.
The headline refers to the background to Sunday's game which was Real's first trip to the troubled region of Catalonia since a referendum on independence sparked Spain's worst political crisis in 39 years.
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Only Madrid's goalscorer Isco and forward Karim Benzema were exempt from criticism in Marca, which criticised the team's usual talisman Ronaldo for only scoring once this campaign and called out Marcelo, Toni Kroos, Luka Modric and captain Sergio Ramos for unconvincing displays.
"Isco is out on his own", ran the cover of newspaper AS.
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Daily ABC described Madrid as "apathetic", calling the defeat the team's worst performance since Zidane took over at the club in January 2016 and began a winning cycle that has yielded seven trophies.
The French coach said Real had lost the game due to two lapses of concentration in the space of four minutes which lead to Cristhian Stuani's equaliser and Portu's winner, but denied there was a problem with the team's attitude.
"What I'm most annoyed about is not killing the game off when we had the chance to do it," the coach said in a news conference after Girona snapped Real's record run of 13 consecutive away wins over the course of two seasons.
"I'm not worried about a lack of intensity nor enthusiasm, these results can happen in the league but we'll keep on working hard.
“I'm not worried. We didn't expect this after winning four games in a row but we still want to win the league."
