'BBC' strikeforce of Gareth Bale, Karim Benzema
and Cristiano Ronaldo after comments made by
midfielder Toni Kroos following the Champions
League victory over Atletico Madrid.
Zidane's men beat Atletico 3-0 in the first leg of
their semi-final tie on Tuesday, with Kroos saying
after the match that his side's impressive
dominance had come due to four midfielders
playing on the pitch, Isco having started in place of
the injured Gareth Bale.
But the Madrid head coach, whose side face
already-relegated Granada at Los Carmenes on
Saturday before the second leg against Diego
Simeone's men next Wednesday, feels his BBC
attackers are all world-class players who benefit
the team when played together.
Zidane insisted he disagrees with critics who used
Kroos' remarks to suggest that Madrid are weaker
when all three of them play, even if the Germany
international's views about controlling the game
with an extra midfielder are valid in certain
situations.
"We always go out to try and play the game - we
can start one way and finish in another," Zidane
said at his pre-match media conference.
"If you think we have got less balance with the
BBC and it is a problem [when they play], then I
don't think that is true.
"I think it is the opposite. They are three huge
world-class players, they are very good.
"But what Toni says is perhaps true as well, we
can have more balance when the game needs it,
such as playing with players on the wing who can
defend and attack.
"When I make a change it isn't always just to
defend, sometimes it is the opposite. When Marco
Asensio and Lucas Vazquez came on [against
Atletico] it wasn't to defend.
"Everyone can have their opinion but I am very
happy with the BBC and all the players.
"The games that we have played with the three up
front can you tell me when we haven't played a
good game? There have been very few that we
haven't played well.
"To put together a side it is always complicated, all
the other players are good, they all want to play
and do very well. The BBC also do very well."
Madrid know that 10 points from their last four
games will be enough to see them crowned
champions for the first time since 2012.
Zidane, though, insists he is not worried about
either competition, even though with his side's
season hanging in the balance.
"I'm not worried about anything but at the moment
we haven't won anything," he said.
"We could win two, one or end up winning nothing.
The only thing I can say is all we are doing is we
must keep going every day until the last minute of
the last match of the season.
"That is what we want to do. Real Madrid wants to
do it that way, I can't tell you how things are going
to end up, but I'm not worried. The only thing I can
say is I like the way that we work."
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