It's up front where the Real Madrid team is least predictable. Benzema's inclusion is just one of the options available to Zidane. However, nothing is a given. Benzema did not start against Bayern Munich and Bale has raised his game.
UEFA, on one of their screens in the stadium in Kiev, revealed their thoughts behind the matter during a test run. Here is the team:
Navas, Carvajal, Ramos, Varane, Marcelo, Casemiro, Kroos, Modric, Isco, Ronaldo, Benzema. Arancha Rodriguez from 'Cope', put this on Instagram:
25 May 2018
Of course, this is nothing official, but merely something that has to be done in the build up to such a major sporting event, such as the Champions League final. Zidane himself revealed nothing as Real Madrid went about their final training session before the game.