Real Madrid vs Legia Warszawa - Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane refuses to treat Legia Warsaw as underdogs

Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane is refusing to treat Legia Warsaw as inferior to his European champions - despite all evidence seemingly pointing to the contrary.

Legia are as long as 80/1 with some bookmakers to beat holders Real at the Bernabeu on Tuesday, with history and statistics stacked heavily against the Polish champions heading into the match.

Whereas Real have won 27 of their last 31 Champions League matches at home - losing just once - and are record 11-time winners of the competition, Legia have never reached a European final, never won in Spain and were thrashed 6-0 by Borussia Dortmund in their previous away match.

To make matters worse for Legia, they were also beaten at home by Sporting Lisbon - leaving them bottom of Group F without a point or goal - and are in similarly poor form domestically, sitting in the bottom five of the Ekstraklasa having lost five of their last eight matches.

The odds are stacked against Jacek Magiera's men, but Zidane is taking nothing for granted ahead of what will be Madrid's 400th European Cup match - another record for Los Blancos.

The Frenchman told a pre-match press conference: "Everyone has their own opinions. The two teams are playing in the same competition and if we're playing in the same competition we're at the same level.

"The game is going to be 50-50 and we must start the match very well, make it difficult for them from the off.

"We're in the same competition which suggests there's no difference between us, even though many people say there's a big difference. If there's a difference you have to show it on the pitch."

Real ended a run of four successive draws with a 6-1 away mauling of Real Betis on Saturday, leaving them joint top of LaLiga and extending their unbeaten streak to 22 matches in all competitions.

Cristiano Ronaldo scored the last of Real's six goals against Betis and if he nets twice against Legia he would become the first player to reach 100 goals in European club competition.

Legia, whose last Champions League victory came on October 18, 1995 against Blackburn, will be determined to try and stop that happening and will hope the possible return of experienced defender Michal Pazdan will help.

The 29-year-old Poland international has been absent for almost a month with a shoulder injury but he is among a 23-man squad to have travelled to Spain and could be passed fit to return.

Pazdan was part of the Poland backline that kept Ronaldo goalless in the Euro 2016 quarter-finals this summer, although the Real man did score in the penalty shoot-out as Portugal edged through before going on to lift the title.

Real, meanwhile, are without Luka Modric and Sergio Ramos.