Cristiano Ronaldo: If Real Madrid win the Champions League, it'll be an incredible year LaLiga - Real Madrid But he won't give up on LaLiga either

Champions League glory for Real Madrid would be enough to salvage their season, according to star striker Cristiano Ronaldo.

Los Blancos are currently floundering for form, languishing 19 points behind Barcelona in LaLiga and having crashed out of the Copa del Rey on Wednesday night.

That makes retaining their Champions League crown a big priority for Ronaldo and his teammates, although he insisted that they cannot relinquish their league championship so early.

"If we can win the Champions League at the end of the year, it will be an incredible year," he told Chinese outlet Doonqiudi at Valdebebas, having granted them an interview after being voted their Footballer of the Year for the third year in a row.

"We haven't started well in LaLiga and we are disappointed, nobody is happy about that.

"But now we must work hard for the Champions League because it's the most important trophy for us.

"It will be difficult in LaLiga, but we can't give up, even if we have dropped many points since the start of the season.

"We have to keep working."

His latest individual honour from Doonqiudi comes on the back of yet another Ballon d'Or award for the Portugal ace, who revealed that those successes are not what keeps driving him.

"I'm not obsessed with that because I didn't even expect to win the five that I have won," Ronaldo added.

"It is good, though, and between myself and [Lionel] Messi, we have shared the Ballon d'Or for the last 10 years."

The current season will end with Ronaldo leading his country to the World Cup in Russia and he warned that they can't be counted out after surprising the continent at Euro 2016.

"Germany, Spain, Brazil, France and Argentina are going to be the favourites," added the former Manchester United man.

"Despite the fact that Portugal won't be included among the favourites, we always compete and will do so again."

Portugal will be in a group with Spain at the Russia-based tournament, and will play La Roja in their first match.