French coach Zinedine Zidane, Real Madrid’s coach, commented,
Saturday evening, that the “Royal” lost their home to Deportivo
Alaves 1-2.
After the match, Zidane made many statements: “We received a
goal after 3 minutes after the ball touched Nacho’s hand, and this
made it difficult for us, when the match starts in this way, everything
becomes more difficult.”
He added, “We did not do things as a team, we must focus because
there is an opponent in front of us, we do not have to look for
excuses, we made a bad match, especially at its beginning, and
we cannot change this matter, and we did not create many chances
in the second half, and the second goal came quickly.”
Regarding the mistakes made by Marcelo and Thibaut Courtois,
Zidane said: “I am guilty because I am the coach. You can take
out a lot of things, but we have to close this page. We have
another match on Tuesday. We cannot blame this or that.
I am responsible for the defeat against Alaves.”
And whether there was a penalty kick that was not awarded to
Brazilian left-back Marcelo, the Real Madrid coach added: “I
did not see it and did not talk to him about it.”
And about Eden Hazard’s injury and leaving the stadium after
less than half an hour, Zidane said: “I think he suffered a blow,
as he said, I hope it was not a muscle injury, we are trying to
recover all the players, and that Hazard continues to participate.”
