Thibaut Courtois, Key to Real Madrid’s Solid Defense

DBasia.news – Thibaut Courtois is said to be the key to the success of Real Madrid this season. He appeared mighty to keep the El Real’s goal, even to be considered as the team with the best defense in Europe.

Courtois again showed that his goal was so difficult to break into. He performed neatly when Madrid won 2-0 over Deportivo Alaves at the Estadio Alfredo Di Stefano, Saturday (11/07/2020).

In that match, Courtois managed to record five rescue times. One of the most crucial is when the Belgian goalkeeper managed to ward off hard kick Victor Camarasa in the 60th minute.

Courtois’ success did not concede in the match against Alaves adding to his record of glint this season. Courtois recorded 18 cleansheets and only conceded 18 goals. Quoted from Squawka, he became the goalkeeper with the most number of cleansheets and conceded the fewest in the top five European leagues this season.

Madrid coach, Zinedine Zidane, acknowledged that Courtois’s role is so big for the team. He is the key to the solid defense of Madrid this season.

“This is team work, but Thibaut prevented us conceding many goals and we did very well,” Zidane said as quoted by Marca.

“Not conceding a goal is clearly impossible. However, it is true that we conceded very few.”

“We have to keep this. We have a very good Courtois and the team can not concede much,” he explained.

The strong defense of Madrid brought them to the top of the LaLiga standings with 80 points collection. They are four points ahead of Barcelona in second.