Kylian Mbappé

The young France and PSG forward's contract finishes in 2022 and PSG will need to do something with the player next summer. That's the moment Real Madrid president Florentino Pérez is waiting for.

Having lost heavily to a side missing its first-choice front three, Zinedine Zidane's men must reflect on where they're going wrong - and must do so urgently.

The gaping difference between Atlético and Madrid was that the former had unyielding belief while the latter did not, hence the respective outcomes on Wednesday night.