Real Madrid-Athletic | Zidane: “Benzema is the best”

Zinedine Zidane appeared after Real Madrid's triumph against Athletic (3-1), the fourth in a row. The white coach was satisfied to add another three points that make them share the lead with Atlético and Real Sociedad. These are the impressions of the French technician.

Victory more suffered than I thought: “No, it is true that it is suffered. When you play 11 against ten, if you interpret the game well you can have it easier, but it has been the other way around. We are too hasty. When they lose a player, you say 'I'm going to score the goal in 15 minutes'. And you had to be patient. After the fourth game in ten days there are three points and you have to be very happy ”.

Patience lacked: “It's what I said, we don't interpret the fact of having one more player very well. We had rainfall, we had to have more possession, make the field bigger… But in the end it is a good and well deserved victory, it is true about the Courtois stop at the end, but it is deserved ”.

Minutes of disconnection: “You are not going to solve it, from time to time this can happen. You have to value Athletic's game, they believed that it could be tied and that's what they did even with ten players ”.

His plan remains the same with the lineups: “We are all here and there are many parties. To think with everyone ”.

How are players who do not play emotionally: “Good as always. Players want to play more, a player like Isco or Marcelo wants to play more and that's normal. What they have to do is keep going, they are working well. We will continue ”.

Note that everyone's degree of involvement is the same: “Yes, of all. The players train very well. Isco, Marcelo, everyone. The team is good ”.

Karim Benzema: “For me he is the best because without playing a great game today he has scored two goals. It always appears. They are the great players ”.

Then the French coach spoke to the media at a press conference.

They won, but suffered: “We continue with what we are doing. With difficulties, there is a rival, but we are very involved in everything we do. Today we must be happy to score three points again. “

Is Benzema the best forward in the history of French football ?: “For me yes, in addition to what he does, what he shows, he has been at Real Madrid for a long time. More than 500 games, all the goals, his record, what he has done speaks for itself. For me he is the better, it's very clear “.

Are you worried about the last minutes of suffering ?: “Yes, we have suffered, but we have to suffer. In a Spanish league game you know that you are going to suffer. It is the fourth game in ten days and the previous ones we played very well from 1 'to 90'. They are three points and home, You have to be happy. You don't have to talk much about the game itself, the important thing was to add. We were less brilliant, but in the end you had to add. Especially if you don't play well. “

Is it a shame that Benzema was not that effective from the beginning in Madrid ?: “No, he is a more accomplished player. He is not a pure striker, he does not only think about the goal. That's why I love it, because he not only thinks about that. He associates, if he has to give a goal pass, he gives it. two things. Today, not having a great game, he scored two goals. That's what Karim has. “