After having witnessed another fine European comeback, Zinedine Zidane spoke to the media to offer his assessment of the win against Sporting CP in his side's Champions League opener: "I'm happy that we got the three points. They made things difficult for us, but we didn't give up. The important thing was to put points on the board. With the substitutions, I was looking for them to give us something else and they did that. I'm pleased with James, Lucas and Morata".



"In the first 80 minutes we played well too. We faced a team that fought hard, particularly in the first half. After the first goal we played better, we were more dominant and got into good positions in attack. When you play in the opposition's half it's different".



Effort

"It wasn't an unexpected win. I don't know whether we deserved it or not, but what's for sure is that we kept believing right until the end. You have to keep going until the final minute, we're a united group and we're very focused, at any given time we can make the difference. We saw that tonight, although we're aware that the performance wasn't a perfect one".



A tough game

"We'll analyse the aspects that I didn't like. What I do know is that we can perform better than we did. But, as I said, we came up against a team that played their game and made it difficult for us. This is the Champions League and nothing is easy in football. There are no easy games".



Benzema

"I thought that he did well, despite not having played all that much. It was to be expected that he started the game a bit slowly, because he hasn't played for a long time. We're only at the start of the season and we can improve. I see the whole squad as being focused, committed and they're all working hard. All of the players know that they can bring something to the team".