Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane says he wants Neymar to be fit for PSG when they meet in the second-leg of their Champions League tie.

Zidane wished the player well and hopes he plays in the match.

It's Los Blancos' only realistic hope of a trophy and the Frenchman wants the best players playing.

"I don't think it influences the game," he said at his pre-match press conference for the Espanyol encounter.

"But I hope he can play, I will never want a rival player to be injured."

Cristiano Ronaldo is once again finding form at the right point in the season, something that Zidane is all too aware of.

"He knows himself very well and we talk because it's very important to have Cristiano always at his best," the coach continued.

"He knows that sometimes he has to rest because the season is very long, at the end of the year there is a World Cup."