Zidane spoke at press conference after the victory of Los Blancos at Allianz Arena. Real Madrid played an incredible second half and they had many chances to score even more goals. The French manager highlighted the difficulty of winning in this stadium, the tie, Cristiano Ronaldo’s performance and other important topics.
The French manager seemed a bit disappointed with the result they achieved today, despite of winning in a difficult stadium as Allianz Arena: ” We suffered a lot in the first half, but in the second half we played really good. It’s very difficult to win here but we are disappointed because we had many chances to score more goals in the second half. In the second half we played against 10 players, but Neuer prevented many goals”, Zidane said about yesterday’s match.
Cristiano Ronaldo played a really good match today and the French manager didn’t doubt on talking about his performance:” He was very happy because of his performance but he knows we could score more goals. He has the virtue of being an scorer. Cristiano has always been better playing in the side but we thought before the game that he must always exchange his position with Benzema, Bale Asensio…What we must do now id rest well because we have a match on Saturday”, Zidane said about Cristiano’s performance.
Zidane also talked about the tie and the second leg: ” We must play the second leg and it won’t be easy, it’s true that with another goal we would be happier. I’m glad of my team because we suffered a lot in the first half. We could go to the dressing room with 2-0, despite it was not penalty. Now we must play the second leg and they have a very good team that can score you two goals in our stadium”, Zidane affirmed about the second leg.
Bale couldn’t’ finish the match because of muscular problems and the French managed changed him in the 58th minute: He had muscular problems and we didn’t want to risk. Now he has a lot of pain but we hope it’s not an important injury. I’m very happy with Asensio’s performance because he is a very good player who can play in every type of games”, the French manager said about Bale’s substitution.
