Benzema: I will not risk facing Saint-Germain. And Neymar is like Messi.
Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema stressed the difficulty of facing Paris Saint-Germain on Tuesday in the final of the Champions League.
"I've been working for many hours, I'm feeling a lot better, and now we have a training session to see what it's going to be like," Benzema said at monday's press conference.
"I certainly feel good, but I have to have more feelings on the pitch."
"Being 100% ready is important, and I've recovered a lot these days, and after training we'll decide."
"When you're off the field you have a hard time, I've been working in the morning, afternoon and night, and in my head I'm ready, it's a great game, and if I have to play tomorrow I'll do my best," he said.
"It's a very big game, and playing against Mbappe is special, because we played together in the national team," he said.
"As everyone knows, one day they can get to Real Madrid, and the most important thing is to play to win, and then we will be friends."
"It's a special match because it's in the Champions League, but it's not special because it's in France, and when I'm with the national team I'm fine, but now I'm with my team," he said.
"The team won without me, and the most important thing is that I do everything to play, but there is no risk because the season is long," he said.
"I'm not going to talk about Messi because he's an extraordinary player, and certainly the fans are waiting for him a lot, I played a lot against him, but tomorrow he's someone else," he said.
On Neymar, he revealed: "He is a big player, I don't know if he is ready, and it is better for them to play, but the games do not depend on one player, but Neymar like Messi is very important."
"In football there is no favorite team, tomorrow is a 90-minute match, and those who work hard will win."
"The problem with Real Madrid is that some of the competitors are ahead of us in the result, and when we don't score in the first quarter of an hour we feel a little nervous, we lose points that way, and we have to improve."
"At the moment I am focusing on my future at Real Madrid, and it is too early to talk about ending my career in France," he said.