For the season of Thibaut Courtois (28 years old), statistics aside, the critics speak. Few or none, in the midst of a general wave from which very few Madridistas are escaping, They have been for him despite the evident weakening of the team behind. The goalkeeper is seen more like a victim than a cause of that white fragility, something that can take shape with his performance yesterday in the Belgium 2-0 England of the League of Nations. After seven games with Madrid conceding, he again left the door to zero.
It was his reappearance, a year later, with those of Roberto Martínez and it was as if nothing had changed. It was lost due to rotating the visit to Cyprus in November 2019, the March window due to the cancellation due to the coronavirus, the September window due to prioritizing the preseason with Zidane, the October window due to annoyances and Wednesday's friendly with Switzerland so that too will play Mignolet. During these absences, Belgium conceded a goal in six of the seven games, drawing and losing two of them. Before, with the madridista, he had fitted only two in nine games, all won and seven of them, also consecutive, with a clean sheet.
Courtois, a wall for Kane
In the night when it reached 80 caps (seven to enter the top 10), with 57 goals against and 53.75% of clean sheets, did not yield to the attempts of the English, launched by a spectacular Grealish and an asset Kane. Courtois saved eight of the nine shots on goal, two of them with great danger from the Tottenham forward, and in the other it helped him providential Lukaku, that cleared on the line what was the tie.
Courtois has one game left, on Wednesday with Denmark, before returning to Spain. If their team ties, they will qualify for the Nations League Final Four. Whatever happens, the Zamora he will have to tighten his gloves at Madrid. This course is shot, on average, every 8.83 minutes, for the 9.5 in the past. Despite this, he is the second goalkeeper in saves (28) in the League, tied with Badía, from Elche, and behind the Valencian player Jaume (34).