“We conceded silly goals for not being 100%”. That was the most graphic conclusion of the Real Madrid goalkeeper, Thibaut Courtois, after last night’s game against Rayo Vallecano ended with a 3-2 scoreline.
Three more goals against that raise the number of goals conceded in LaLiga Santander to 13, a level that, for the best goalkeeper of last year it seems worrying, not because of the quantity, but because of the quality. Not in vain last year, on matchday 13, Real Madrid also had 13 goals conceded, nine more than Barcelona, current leader of the classification, has.
Beyond the fact that the Belgian has collected 11 balls from the net of those 13 occasions (he has not played four games in the domestic league), the white goalkeeper has not managed to keep his goalkeeper clean in any of the games he has played. Not even in the Champions League, where he has also conceded four goals, one for each game that has been under the Madrid framework. And that is being one of the best in Madrid this season.
The question lies, as we said, in how Real Madrid receives the goals. Last night, not counting the penalty, the goals conceded in Vallecas come, the first, from a frank shot from comesa from the center of the unopposed area, since Modric and Tchouamni they are far from their mark; and the second, after a bizarre play inside the area in which the ball heads to lvaro Garciawhich splices it with the soul, rendering Courtois’s fists useless.
The concentration, perhaps, at this point in the course is where the Real Madrid goalkeeper seems to have an impactwho insists on the rhythm of the group, as he did after the game against Girona, a game in which the Whites also received a penalty against for hands inside the area.
“We have lacked rhythm in the games,” he came to say at the conclusion of the duel against the Catalans, also referring to the game they lost to Leipzig. And against these two teams, the team was at times somewhat blurredabove all, to face the return to defensive positions after the attack in static or, depending on the case, that of allow too many licenses to the rival inside the Courtois area.
With the arrivals of the midfielder Aurelien Tchouamni and defender Antonio Rdiger it seemed that the doubts that had arisen last year in defensive matters had dissipated. Nevertheless, Real Madrid is showing that it is still a pending issue. Of the 20 games that Madrid have played this season, Courtois has only kept his goalkeeper clean in five.
There is only one game left before the break for the World Cup takes place, against Cádiz at the Santiago Bernabu. Will the players finish the year? Carlo Ancelotti with the frame at zero?
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The silly goals that despair Thibaut Courtois