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Super Juventus to the final

Real Madrid on their way to Cardiff

Paulo Dybala has admitted that he would have liked to play with Zidane, ahead of Juventus' Champions League final against Real Madrid next month.

Real booked their place in Cardiff by beating Atletico Madrid on Wednesday night, with Juventus dispatching Monaco on Tuesday, and Dybala, who has scored 17 goals this season, is looking forward to facing Zidane's side on June 3.

"I would have liked to play with Zidane," said the 23-year-old.

"We all know his quality. I liked his technique, the way he moved around the pitch, the way he went past players. He made difficult things look easy.

"Everyone saw the type of player he was and now he's demonstrating how good a manager he is."

Dybala's four strikes in the Champions League have propelled Juventus to a second final in three years, and he says his best performance this season came in the quarter-final against Barcelona.

Two of Dybala's four Champions League strikes this season came in Juventus' quarter-final first-leg against Barcelona, a game for which he believes he was at his best.

"My top form came in the week that we knocked Barcelona," he explained. "I felt good physically, I was confident and I think that it was one of the best moments of my career."

The former Palermo man made his move to Turin in 2015, and believes that the environment at the Serie A leaders has brought out the best in him.

"I think I've come on a lot because of the mentality at Juventus," he said. "Whenever we're on a pitch we're there to win, without thinking about the team that we're playing against.

"Gigi [Buffon] is the number one of all the number ones in the history of football. [Leonardo] Bonnuci, Andrea Barzagli and [Giorgio] Chiellini are a wall. I've got a lot of adjectives for Dani Alves, I think he's phenomenal. Gonzalo [Higuain] is a goalscorer."