Courtois already spotting Casillas

Hello Madridistas. We are very happy for the three points and the goal to zero, but we are already focused for the game on Monday. A smiling Thibaut Courtois was thus addressing white followers from the Madrid television channel. AND the smile he outlined was not for less: he had returned to his goal to zero in the league championship. It was the eighteenth time he did it in the current League. That brings him closer every day to lifting the Zamora Trophy to the least beaten goalkeeper of the season. It will be his third in the history of that title and the first to be won by a Madrid goalkeeper since the 2007-08 campaign, when Iker Casillas did it.

In that season, the Madrid goalkeeper registered his best unbeaten minute streak: he did it between the months of December and January, when he spent 574 minutes without conceding a goal. Casillas' streak started at the Bernabéu, against Racing: Pedro Munitis beat Iker on matchday 14, with 15 minutes to go until the end of the game and he would be six consecutive games without fitting in. Madrid visited San Mamés, the Camp Nou and Vicente Calderón winning all three games and without receiving so much … It was Giuseppe Rossi, with Villarreal, who managed to drill the Real Madrid goal on matchday 21 at the same Santiago Bernabéu stadium.

With the goal to zero against Alavés, Courtois added 462 minutes without fitting. The last player to score was Mikel Merino on June 21 at the Reale Arena against Real Sociedad. Since then, the Belgian keeper has accumulated 462 minutes of play without receiving goals. It is thus approaching its best record in the Spanish League. A figure that established in the League 2011-12 with 579 minutes without receiving goals. Thibaut was out of the box since Roet Santa Cruz's Betis did so with Betis on matchday 17 (minute 88) until Eguren scored for Sporting on day 24 (minute 38). It should be remembered that the game of the first day that the rojiblancos had to play in Anoeta changed on the calendar and ended up being played in January,

Also, Courtois is the first Madrid goalkeeper to link five consecutive days without fitting in, matching Casillas' record. He has three challenges ahead for two other records: Granada, Villarreal and Leganés. The first is easy. If it does not fit, it will set a new record in the history of Madrid: being the first goalkeeper with eight consecutive days without fitting. The record is at seven …While he's one game away from overcoming a record for Buyo as a white goalkeeper: the Galician left his goal to zero in 19 games in the 1986-87 season, while in the following, the 1987-88 campaign left his goal at zero to 18 goals. Thibaut adds 18 in the 2019-20 campaign, with three bullets to spend …