A very good start counting for Zinedine Zidane was clear from day one. For the new Real Madrid coach, Gareth Bale, Karim Benzema and Cristiano Ronaldo are non-negotiable. And two games in, the trio have hit all 10 goals in two big wins at the Bernabeu.

Unfortunately, two of them limped off with injuries against Sporting Gijon.

In his presentation as Madrid coach, Zidane refused to talk about invidual players. “All of them are important,” he said. However, when asked whether the three members of the ‘BBC’ trident would all be in the team, he was categoric: “The three in attack will play,” he said. “That’s the idea.”

Unfortunately, two of them limped off with injuries against Sporting Gijon.

Bale hit a hat-trick in Zidane’s first game as coach last weekend, a 5-0 victory at home to Deportivo La Coruna in which Benzema netted the other two. Ronaldo, meanwhile, did not convert, but his coach said: “Cristiano can score in the next match.”

And he did. Twice. The Portuguese netted his side’s second with a fierce drive against Sporting Gijon after Bale had headed home the first, then slotted home another, while Benzema notched another double in an impressive performance in the opening half as Real raced into a 5-0 lead

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