“We’re up against a great team that play very good football”, added the Real Madrid coach.
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Zinedine Zidane spoke in the press room at Real Madrid City the day before the match against Real Sociedad. The Whites’ coach analysed the quarter-final cup match, which will be played at the Bernabéu (Thursday, 7pm CET): “It’s a final, not a quarter-final. We have to be focussed, concentrated and involved in the match from the start. It’s a single-leg game and they’re not going to give anything away. We’re up against a great team that plays very good football and is going to come and do things right”.
“We are good and happy, but this is a long season. We haven’t won anything, and we have to continue in the same way. You can be happy when you have won something, but we’ve not won anything. I’m only working on this match, which is the next one and it’s coming now”.
Good physical moment
“The team is doing very well physically and it’s all because of the work we’re doing. We play every three days and we always have to show that we’re doing well and that we want more”.
The management of the dressing room
“What I do and say I must carry out. I have 25 very good players and I want them all to play and bring things to the team. At some point they all have to show and feel that they’re important until the end of the season. That’s my philosophy because there are so many games. It’s not possible to play with few players, besides they have to play with the national team. Physically they can endure it, but the complicated thing is the mental rest”.
