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Real Madrid see complacency as their biggest enemy as they aim to reach their 18th European Cup final on Wednesday night.
It's part of the reason why they have barely celebrated winning the league at the weekend.
Home advantage in a second leg with the score at 2-2 suits them but Carlo Ancelotti has spent the last few days drumming it into his players that this game is all that matters, not a possible Wembley final.
And it's why there were such muted festivities after the weekend crowning as LaLiga champions.
The Madrid players watched the first semi-final on Tuesday night at their Valdebebas training ground and there is a feeling in the camp that some in France underestimated Borussia Dortmund and Madrid do not want to repeat the mistake.
Vinicius Junior celebrates after scoring Real Madrid's equaliser against Bayern last week
Carlo Ancelotti wouldn't allow any celebrations after Real clinched the LaLiga title
Harry Kane, who scored in the first leg from the spot, was turned down by Real last summer
President Florentino Perez also paid the players a visit on Tuesday evening and with 15.5 million euros [£13.3m] euro up for grabs for reaching Wembley he will also be keen to make sure there is no complacency.
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Bayern's history, Harry Kane leading the race to win the Golden Shoe, and the fact that Thomas Tuchel has won this competition and never lost away in Madrid are all reasons to support that caution.
If the fifth-best team in the Bundesliga can deny Kylian Mbappe his Champions League final goodbye, then the second best team led by the wily Tuchel can cause a shock in the Spanish capital.
Tuchel also knows that Bayern are not the favourites and he seemed to be playing up to that in his charm-offensive press conference.
'I don't need to explain the legend of Madrid to you,' he told Spanish reporters. 'I grew up reading about it.'
He also joked with them when asked about what has surprised him most about Kane. 'The amount of coffee he drinks,' he said. 'He is
