Thibuat Courtois is the best goalkeeper and one of the most outstanding players of last season, in which Real Madrid won three titles – the Spanish Super Cup, the Liga and the Champions League – thanks in large part to the rescue of a goalkeeper who this Sunday will again will face his former team, the Atletico Madrid.
And it is that Courtois has yet to keep a clean sheet in LaLiga Santander. Five games and five goals lost. Real Madrid always concede a goal, Although, so far, he always wins. He is 16-0 on second-half goals this season counting his games, eight, by wins.
In the League, they are back against Almeria (1-0 to 1-2) and broke the tie against spanish (1-1 to 1-3), Legs (1-1 to 2-1) and Majorca (1-1 to 4-1) in the second 45 minutes. Some plot twists that the team on Carlo Ancelotti He was forced to do so due to a lack of force at the back which, surprisingly, only occurs when he plays in the League.
History is very different in the Champions League. Two games and no goals lost, with seven stops for Courtois. He also left his goal at zero in European Super Cup conquered on August 10 in Helsinki. European music suits the Belgian. You will hear differently this Sunday in the League, returning to a stadium where you are not wanted.
Courtoi played 154 games in the red and white shirt in three seasons on loan from Chelsea, which earned him a plaque near the current Cívitas Metropolitano as part of ‘The Walk of Legends’ that became the center of controversy at the end of May and ended up changing the name and philosophy of this tribute to former mattress players.
The Belgian said before last season’s Champions League final that, after his previous experience in the 2014 Lisbon final where Atlético lost against Real Madrid, he is confident it will not happen again because “now he is on the good side of history”.
Some statements that became specific triggers, after continuous signs of undying love for what is now his club, so that an unknown person tears the goalkeeper’s plate from scratch.
It was renamed in honor of a player who in the three seasons he played for rojiblanco won four titles: the European League 2011-2012, the European Super Cup 2012, the Copa del Rey 2012-2013 and the League 2013-2014.
However, this has led to a change in the ‘Walk of Legends’, which has been called the ‘Walk of Centennial Players’ since last August 18. Also, Atlético de Madrid retains the right to remove the tribute plaque to “players who, while active or retired, make abusive or offensive statements against Atlético de Madrid or its fans, or whose behavior seriously damages the image of Atlético de Madrid” .
no doubt Vinicius will be the rival player most booed by rojiblanca fans after the recent controversy over his dances when celebrating his goals, but Courtois will listen to the music in the air when his name blares over the loudspeakers in a stadium where, due to Carlo Ancelotti’s rotations last season in -thinking about the final in Paris, he didn’t play last. season.
His big challenge, now away from the spotlight because of his past, is to keep a clean sheet. Something he achieved last season on 16 occasions, 44.4% of the games he played. At the moment, he is at 0% and is the goalkeeper in LaLiga’s ‘top 7’ who has collected the most balls from under his goal.
Source: La Verdad
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