Juventus lessons should help Real: Zidane

But having suffered an almighty scare at home in the quarter-finals, when Juventus won 3-1 in Madrid after Real had beaten it 3-0 in Turin, Zidane said nothing is decided despite Real’s slender advantage. “We will have to fight in the second leg, nothing is decided, that showed in the second leg against Juventus,” said Zidane.

“We will have to suffer again and face Bayern in a different way at home, because if we don’t, we could have a bad result next week,” he warned. The host took the lead at the soldout Allianz Arena through Joshua Kimmich, but Marcelo equalised just before the break. Substitute Asensio hit Real’s winner after finishing a counter-attack to seal Real’s sixth straight win over Bayern in the knock-out stages of Europe.

“We can be happy with the result, we had difficulties at the start of the match in imposing our game,” said Zidane. “It’s not easy to come and win here, we can do better, but we’re happy with the result.” Zidane pulled a surprise before kick-off by dropping Gareth Bale, but insisted he does not have a problem with the Welshman.

“I have a lot of quality players here, he has been playing well and I know I can count on Gareth Bale the same way I do those others who also didn’t play,” said Zidane. Toni Kroos was unimpressed with Real’s performance at his former club. “It was an average performance from us, in the end, we had a lot of work to do, a lot of running,” said Madrid’s Germany midfielder.

“The result is good, nothing more than that. Bayern were probably a bit better than us, but we took our chances well.” Bayern captain Thomas Mueller admits the result does his side no favours. To compound Bayern’s woes, it could have lost both Arjen Robben and Jerome Boateng for the return. Both suffered leg injuries in the opening half an hour and will be examined today.

“We need another mentality in front of goal, which could have been very different in my opinion.” Mueller said last year’s 2-1 second-leg win over 90 minutes at Madrid in the quarter-finals -- before Bayern eventually lost 6-3 on aggregate after extra-time -- gives it hope.

“We won’t give up, we won there last year, but we need a different mentality and a killer instinct,” he said.