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Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane said that his team does not view the 1-1 draw at home with Real Sociedad on Monday as a missed opportunity to return to the title race, and called for calm before facing Atletico Madrid, leaders of the Spanish Premier League, on Sunday..
Real Madrid could have entered the top of the Spanish capital, and it has a chance to equal the points tally with Atletico if it beat Sociedad in Monday’s match, but it settled for a draw after Vinicius Junior scored a late goal to cancel out the visitors’ lead through Porto..
The French coach told reporters: We have to be calm. We played well and created three or four chances, but we were facing a team that also created some chances. Now we have to be patient and calm and go to rest.
He added: We deserved more than that given the chances we created. We dominated the game, but there were games we won that we didn’t deserve. This is football.
The draw came after five consecutive victories for Real Madrid in all competitions, but Zidane said that the result would not affect preparations to face Atletico, which has a five-point lead over Real Madrid and second-placed Barcelona, and has an additional match remaining..
The French coach said: This does not affect the way we will deal with the summit match. We will go there with the aim of playing a great match. Every team drops points and we know that we have to score the most points and this is what we will do. There’s still a long way to go.
Real Madrid’s injury crisis began to subside slowly, and the duo Federico Valverde and Rodrigo, who sat on the bench against Sociedad, were restored after a long period of absence..
Zidane revealed that he hopes that top scorer Karim Benzema can recover from a thigh injury before facing Atletico.
Source – Arabic