Though, despite continued European success which has brought the club to the brink of an unprecedented third consecutive Champions League title, many still retain doubts about bestowing the title of "great" on Zinedine Zidane's team. Last season, they became the first team since AC Milan in 1990 to retain the European Cup, and the first in Champions League history to do so. The team standing in the way of an historic "three-peat" is Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool, arguably the antithesis of this Real side. "Liverpool have a more even distribution of goals than Real Madrid have," Honigstein says. But should they win their fourth Champions League title in five years, it will become increasingly difficult to deny them a place.

Source: CNN May 25, 2018 10:41 UTC