Zinedine Zidane: 'Gareth Bale still important to Real Madrid'

Zinedine Zidane has insisted that Gareth Bale is a "very important" player for Real Madrid, despite once again overlooking the forward for selection against Paris Saint-Germain.

"The team is the important thing," he told reporters at his post-match presser. "Bale didn't play in the first leg nor today, but that doesn't have anything to do with it "He's very important and will be right to the end. It was important to put [Vazquez and Asensio] in to have two banks of four defending their wide players. "We did that really well. Lucas is doing really well at the moment, and Marco too. We all are, but them in particular. I can't explain anything more to you. I have to choose every three days and today the plan was to go with those players. They did well."