Real Madrid midfielder Toni Kroos gave a brutally honest assessment of his team's performance against Ajax in the Champions League on Tuesday night, admitting that every player failed to reach their best in the humiliating 4-1 demolition at the Bernabeu.
Real held a 2-1 aggregate advantage after winning the first leg in Amsterdam last month, but nobody in white was banking on Ajax playing as well as they did.
The defeat at the hands of Ajax was just the latest setback in what has been a tremendously disappointing season for Real, whose historic streak of three consecutive Champions League titles is now at an end, with the Ajax game also a fourth straight home defeat in all competitions.