Zidane: "We can come back at home"

The Frenchman believes that his team lacked intensity and admitted that his substitutions had failed to change the game.

Zinedine Zidane called for calm after watching his team slump to a 2-0 defeat against Wolfsburg.

The coach insisted that both he and his players would not be panicking and that they were confident they would be able to turn the tie around in the Santiago Bernabeu.

"What we have to do is remain calm," he said. "I'm not going to be going crazy and neither will my players.

"We are hurting because losing always hurts, but we have the opportunity to change that."

Zidane believed that his Madrid players paid the price for a lacklustre start against a committed Wolfsburg side.

"We didn't start the match with the intensity you need in a Champions League game, whereas they [Wolfsburg] did," he said, adding "we lacked mobility, across the whole pitch, especially at the start."

The Real coach admitted that he had been unable to change the game from the bench. He insisted that the substitution of Luca Modric was no reflection of his performance.

"I had to make a substitution and it could have been a different player, it was nothing to do with Luca. The substitutions didn't work today but I had to try something."