Another home match with Real Madrid and another defeat for Zidane. And also a new message concerning Gareth Bale. As if it had not been enough to leave him out of the squad to face Real Sociedad.
Questioning about whether he would be seen in the last match reopened the debate of his possible departure. "I don't know, we'll see if he'll be there next week. He's fine physically. It's very clear what I've done this weekend, we'll see what I do next week and what happens next year. That's it," he said.
A message and a tone both contrary to those used to talk about Marcelo. "I'm happy with him. Anyway, he is one of this team, he is an important player and clear that I want to recover the best Marcelo and little by little we are going to recover him", specified Zidane, who clarified that "it is not time" to talk about Theo.
Zidane also spared some praise for Brahim, who finally managed to make his debut wearing white: "He has played well, he is young and interesting, nothing more and we will see what we are going to do, but so far he has had game time and has done well.
As for the development of the game itself, he said that it was "complicated in the second half, but even with ten we had chances. Then it was a bit more difficult once it became 3-1. The match against Rayo was a bad match, but not this time.
Zidane liked "the start of the match very much". "We scored, after the goal cancelled out by VAR took four or five minutes it became another game. Then they scored a goal for us, it's a shame because we played a good game and even with ten we were able to score," he said.