Portuguese forward accused the Catalan giants of getting favourable decisions from the referee after Gonzalo Higuain's effort was ruled out

Real Madrid attacker Cristiano Ronaldo believes that Barcelona are a great team but complained they have other forces working in their favour.

The capital club were knocked out of the Champions League semi-final by their arch-rivals 3-1 on aggregate after the 1-1 second-leg stalemate at Camp Nou on Tuesday evening.

Barca's 2-0 triumph in the first-leg last week at the Bernabeu was fraught with controversy as Pepe and Jose Mourinho were both sent off.

Madrid also had a Gonzalo Higuain goal disallowed tonight, with Ronaldo insisting that it is not just Barcelona’s class that makes them win matches with ease.

"This was Mission Impossible IV," Ronaldo told reporters after the match. “We knew that this was going to happen. We're used to living with these things. They took away our chance to reach the final in the first-leg at the Bernabeu. Here, no, here it was just the same thing.



"There are lots of things together. What happened at the Bernabeu, what happened today, these are things to think about. Barcelona have a great team but there's something behind it. It was hard to play with 10-men after our red card against Barcelona, and it was hard to play with the goal disallowed today.

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"[Gerard] Pique touched me and I fell on to [Javier] Mascherano. He wasn't like this at Liverpool: he learned the cheats of Barcelona."The dressing room is extremely sad," Ronaldo added. "It's very difficult to play with these setbacks." ﻿