Zinedine Zidane spoke at press conference after the capital derby, where Atlético Madrid tied in the last minutes. The French manager highlighted the good work of his team,their opponent, his continuity in Real Madrid’s bench and other important topics.
Zidane started the press conference talking about today’s game against Atlético Madrid: “We cannot be happy today. We only added one point in a very complete game of my players. We have to rest because we have on Wednesday another important game. We did a good match but in the last minutes we weren’t concentrate. Atletico Madrid didn’t play a good match, but this is football”, the French manager said about today’s derby.
Pepe couldn’t finish the match and Kroos was replaced in the 75th minute. The journalists didn’t’ doubt in asking the French manager about these two players: “I wanted to introduce Isco to defend the left side and have more ball possessions. With the Pepe’s change there was no option, he had a very big pain and he couldn’t finish the match”, Zidane said about Pepe and Kroos.
Griezmann played a very good match today scoring the goal in the last 5 minutes that gave the draw to Atlético Madrid: ” We don’t have to wonder how to stop him. He is a very good player who scores a lot of goals and he is going a great season. In the goal he scored us we did not defend good the play, we were misplaced. We are all disappointed”, Zidane said about his compatriot who had a good performance today.
It looked like Real Madrid were a bit tired in the last minutes of the second half and the journalists asked the French manager about it:” I don’t think we tied because we were tired, we weren’t concentrate in the last minutes, that’s the great mistake. “,Zidane affirmed.
Th French manger also spoke bout his continuity in Real Madrid in the next season:” You must ask someone else, not me. I’m working hard each day. I cannot say nothing about my future, I will not speculate”, the French coach said.
Comment: I want to say this as a Madridista, Athletico didn’t deserve a single point from that encounter because they didn’t play as expected, our defense line fumble, i will categorically relate it to Nacho, he is a gud defender no doubt but i used to observed most of the time that Nacho is finding it wrong when our defense line try to subject an opponent in an offside position, if we watch that incident very carefully it was only Nacho that remain with Griezman when all the defenders drawn the offside line and the French man did us the damage, so i call on Zizou to work on Nacho in that aspect especially when he is playing in the fullback position, he is a gud guy a utility player but that’s his problem, nevertheless, we thank God for the point and the loose from our arch rival. #HalaMadrid
Comment: I want to say this as a Madridista, Athletico didn't deserve a single point from that encounter because they didn't play as expected, our defense line fumble, i will categorically relate it to Nacho, he is a gud defender no doubt but i used to observed most of the time that Nacho is finding it wrong when our defense line try to subject an opponent in an offside position, if we watch that incident very carefully it was only Nacho that remain with Griezman when all the defenders drawn the offside line and the French man did us the damage, so i call on Zizou to work on Nacho in that aspect especially when he is playing in the fullback position, he is a gud guy a utility player but that's his problem, nevertheless, we thank God for the point and the loose from our arch rival. #HalaMadrid.