Real Madrid and evasive Zidane fail to convince after Bernabéu horror show | Sid Lowe
Recovering to draw 2-2 with Club Brugge keeps them alive but the 13-time European champions have problems stacking up, with Thibaut Courtois the latest player under the microscope
Zinedine Zidane said the two goals that Real Madrid conceded against Club Brugge were “a bit of a joke”, but nobody was laughing. What they thought would be a routine victory became a rescue mission. They had, as one headline had it on Wednesday morning, “stared into the abyss”: trailing after nine minutes, two down by the break, defeat would have left them with no points, six behind Brugge and Paris Saint-Germain, one behind Galatasaray. Instead, they came back to draw 2-2, the damage limited, Casemiro suggesting that the “point might have kept us alive”. Yet there was still damage done, questions that remained unanswered.
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