Tuesday 12 April 2016 22:19, UK
Zinedine Zidane says Real Madrid will need to be patient if they are to overturn a 2-0 first-leg deficit against Wolfsburg and reach the Champions League semi-finals.
Wolfsburg duo Ricardo Rodriguez and Maxi Arnold put the Bundesliga side firmly in control of the quarter-final tie, leaving Madrid with a real mountain to climb in the second-leg at the Bernabeu on Tuesday.
Madrid have gone out of Europe's elite competition on the previous eight occasions they have lost the first-leg and Zidane admits that he cannot afford to deploy gung-ho tactics against Wolfsburg.
"The message is patience because we know anything can happen in football," the Frenchman said.
"As we've seen in La Liga - with Barcelona's goal we were 13 points behind and now we are four. That is the great thing about football.
"We have to keep our heads, we are not going to win [the tie] in 10 or 15 minutes.
"It will be much more difficult if they score a goal. Anything can happen, but we need to be concentrated from the first minute."
Zidane, who scored the winner for Real in their 2002 Champions League final win over Bayer Leverkusen at Hampden Park, added: "I am always positive and I achieved something as a player with this philosophy.
"What most concerns me is to see the faces of my players and they are very focused on the game, so that eases the pressure.
"We need to score, but we have 90 minutes or more to do so."
