Zinedine Zidane analyzed the suffered Real Madrid triumph against Huesca at El Alcoraz. The Frenchman, in the flash interview, praised the character of his team to overcome Javi Galán’s goal. “We are not going to lower our arms,” he insisted.
Comeback: “Very satisfied with the whole game, not only for the victory, which has been fighting, with character. It was important to add and win today to come back. It was very important to win ”.
Value for casualties: “Yes because it is what is touching us. We have seven or eight very important casualties, even with the operation on our captain. It is what it is, it is not an excuse but it is what it is. What we want is to have the players with us again. At least fight ”.
Second part: “The players believed until the end, knowing that they had to suffer. We have suffered, as always, and we have achieved a good victory. You had to win. We know the difficulty we are having lately, we have to regain our joy, our football and this is little by little. Today, really, it was important to win, with character. Now we are going to recover well and think about Tuesday ”.
Demonstration that the League is going to fight: “The team is going to fight, we are never going to lower our arms. In times of difficulty, the other way around. We know we have to put up our face and we are going to fight until the end. We are second and we want more ”.
Ramos operation: “I sent him a message, I know that the operation went very well and now the good thing is that we know that tomorrow he is going to go back to work and that’s good for us.
Zidane later appeared at a telematic press conference. These are your impressions.
Important victory. Does the mood of the team and you change?: “No, but yes, it was very important to add today. We knew the difficulties lately. We played a game with character. It was important to add up and do what we did, little by little ”.
Ramos operation. What is your assessment of their absence? Should it have been renewed already?: “It was important for him to be calm with that. It had to be done because it was on the edge. The operation went very well and that is the important thing. He will work from tomorrow to be with us when before ”.
Yesterday you were angry about the comments that come to you, the team’s losses …? Who was he addressing ?: “We are happy with the victory. It was a difficult game but we added the three points. You have to keep fighting. This is still long ”.
What happened to the team in the first half? Why is it so hard for players to get connected ?: “It is normal. Our beginning of the game we were not comfortable. We started regular, but after 20 minutes we were comfortable in the game. The important thing is the three points. We have to play well again, come back with joy and that’s it. It is little by little. You have to be patient. Today we have to be very happy with what we did ”.
Asensio’s good time: “I am happy. He has had a long injury and that’s it. We are all happy with it. We know the player he is and let him continue like this in this way ”.
Does the victory leave you more satisfied with the fact of having been a comeback and the character that the team has shown in the face of adversity ?: “Yes, it has been important. It’s never easy at 1-0 when your opponent scores a goal. We had minutes of difficulty, but we stayed in the game thinking that it could be changed and that is what we did, with personality. In the end it is also an important result when you lose 1-0 win at the end in this way ”.
