Courtois’ save that is worth a goal – Spain’s News

There are some things that are repeated in each game that the real Madrid: the goals of Benzema and Viniciusthe assists of one of the two or of Rodrygo and the stops of Courtois. On days when the team suffers and even when it doesn’t have a bad time, the Belgian always appears to contribute his share of success. He is a almost infallible giant in recent seasons, after a start in Madrid that cost him more than necessary. He was slow to adapt, but since he did he has rocketed to the top of the world ranking of goalkeepers.

At Stamford Bridge he became enormous before Cucurella to star in his stop of everyday. He threw himself at the feet of the Spanish soccer player to put his two-meter height ahead of him in the form of a wall that was impossible to overcome. The former Getafe player controlled the ball instead of finishing off first and when he kicked it was already dark. He took the ball to Thibaut’s corner and the importance of the save is summed up in the reaction of his teammates, most of whom went to hug him and congratulate you for what he had just done. It is one of those saves with goal value, because conceding a bit in the first half can change everything. He stopped the difficult one he had, the medium level ones and even the easy ones, lowering the crosses to the players’ area with great authority. Chelsea.

The Belgian was the goalkeeper with more stops made in the last Champions League, which ended up being the fourteenthwith 61twenty more than the second in that classification, which was rullifrom Villarreal.

This course, before the second leg of semifinalshe was sixth in that table with 29 stops, but with the six he made in London is going to be second with 35tied with the Bruges goalkeeper: mignolet.

“They were able to score in the first half, but Thibaut He was there as always to save us”, said Rodrygo, the best of the match with valverde, who recognized what his teammate had done before Madrid found the goals. The same thing that the Belgian goalkeeper did in the first leg, and in the final in Paris, where he won his first Champions League last year. There he was also in charge of starting the work so that the forwards could finish it later. «His stop of him has been key in the match. He allowed us to keep the tie after a first part in which we suffered on the left. Later, in the second, we fixed it and scored two wonderful goals, he confirmed. ancelotti.