Munich: Zinedine Zidane said Wednesday that Real Madrid must heed the lessons from their Juventus scare in order to finish off Bayern Munich in next Tuesday’s Champions League semifinal, return leg.
Having suffered an almighty scare at home in the quarterfinals, when Juventus won 3-1 in Madrid after Real had beaten them 3-0 in Turin, Zidane said nothing can be predicted decided despite his team’s slender advantage against Bayern.
“We will have to fight in the second leg, nothing is decided, that showed in the second leg against Juventus,” said Zidane.
“We will have to suffer again and face Bayern in a different way at home, because if we don’t, we could have a bad result next week,” he warned.
Zidane, however stated that an away victory is always satisfactory. “We can be happy with the result, we had difficulties at the start of the match in imposing our game,” pointed out the Frenchman. “It’s not easy to come and win here, we can do better, but we’re happy with the result.” The Frenchman added.
Zidane stated that he has no problems with Gareth Bale when asked as to why the player was benched. “I’ve a number of quality players and I can use only 11 or 14. The players know that, Bale knows that, so no problems with him,” Zidane asserted.
Bayern coach Jupp Heynckes was not happy to see his team throw away the lead and waste a string of chances.
“It was a curious game, we had a lot of chances we didn’t use, so it’s no wonder we lost,” fumed Heynckes. “I’m not accusing anyone, but our defence was poor for the goals they scored – we gave them away. But the chances we created, give us hope. it’s not over yet.
Agence France-Presse