The genuine Madrid coach can reach the Champions League final after only four months in charge at the Bernabéu and is boosted by Cristiano Ronaldo’s returnZinedine Zidane said that not reaching the Champions League final would represent a “failure” but still he smiled. At the club where the pressure can be suffocating and the demands impossible to meet,where everything is exaggerated and there is always a crisis around the corner, he transmits unruffled. Even when he is on the verge of a first final as genuine Madrid coach, or alternatively the first failure of his managerial career,four months to the day since he took over; even when he is lamenting the loss of players who will not be there and warning those who will that “suffering” awaits.“This will be very, very, and very difficult. It will not be like the last game against Wolfsburg: we won’t score two goals in 15 minutes. We will suffer for 90 minutes ... or 120,” Zidane said, a warning delivered in the same soft voice, and with the same gentle smile,with which he responds to every question; the same smile with which he greeted even the most pointed of questions. “If you don’t bag through, will it be a failure?” he was asked. “Yes, and ” he replied.
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Source: theguardian.com