Zinedine Zidane returns to the Champions League, 480 days after winning his third consecutive trophy in Europe’s premier club competition against Liverpool. No coach had until then won three tournaments in a row, while only Bob Paisley and Carlo Ancelotti had achieved three Champions League trophies. Zidane departed Madrid five days after the Kiev triumph, but he has returned to lead Los Blancos in the competition. Since his Champions League debut as a coach in Rome in February 2016, the Frenchman has won 23 games, drawing six and losing just four. In 2016/17, Tottenham Hotspur defeated Real Madrid 3-1 in a group stage game at Wembley Stadium, but Los Blancos qualified for the next round. In the semi-finals of the competition they beat Atletico Madrid 3-0 on home soil before losing 2-1 at the Estadio Vicente Calderon to reach the final. One year earlier, Wolfsburg beat Zidane’s men 2-0 in Germany in the first leg of the quarter-final, but Madrid overturned the two-goal deficit at the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu, going through 3-2 on aggregate. Finally, in the Frenchman’s last year, they were defeated 3-1 in Spain by Juventus in the quarter-final of the competition, although they managed to qualify due…