Juventus legend Pavel Nedved believes that Real Madrid aren't as good as Barcelona and Bayern Munich this season.
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The 2003 Ballon d'Or winner, now the director of football at Juventus, was speaking about the possible winners of this season's Champions League – saying that Los Blancos aren't as dangerous as the Bavarians and the Catalan club.
"It's good for Juve to have avoided Barcelona and Bayern Munich, who are the best teams in Europe at the moment," he told El Mundo Deportivo.
"Real Madrid are not at the level of last year. But everything can change very quickly."
However, Pavel Nedved insisted that the Italian giants mustn't take their quarter-final opponents Monaco lightly.
"Obviously there were more famous possible opponents we could have drawn, but we must not underestimate Monaco," he added.
"They went dangerously close to being knocked out at home, but they impressed me against Arsenal in London."
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Nedved played 326 games for Juventus in his prime, where he scored 65 goals and assisted a further 34.
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