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Thibaut Courtois become an important pillar Real Madrid this season. The Belgian goalkeeper now has the opportunity to follow in the footsteps of the previous Los Blancos goalkeepers who were irreplaceable at Spanish League.
This season, Madrid’s journey is not easy. Hurricane injuries and pandemics COVID-19 so annoyed the squad, even the coach Zinedine Zidane routinely bringing players from Madrid’s youth team, namely Real Madrid Castilla, to complete the squad.
Call it like Victor Chust, Sergio Arribas, Marvin Park, to Antonio Blanco. Although they only often warm up the bench, in emergency situations, some of them have played in matches because they have no choice.
But that never happened in the goalkeeping sector. Courtois is responsibly able to keep his condition healthy and continue to play in every match.
This season, Courteous become a player Madrid the most appearances, namely 50 times, with 21 clean sheets and 43 goals conceded. Especially in LaLiga, he has appeared 37 times, which means he has never been absent in any jornada so far.
Courtois is also likely to play in the final match against Villarreal on Saturday (22/5), which is the title decisive match. If that were the case, he would have completed his total number of appearances to 38, according to the number of games he played Spanish League.
Throughout the history of Madrid, there have been six goalkeepers who have received irreplaceable status in LaLiga during a season. Written by Marca, the last one who did it was Iker Casillas.
The former Madrid captain has even done this four times, namely in the 2002/03, 2006/07, 2008/09 and 2009/10 seasons. Courtois will become the seventh goalkeeper if he actually appears in the match against Villarreal.
Not only in LaLiga, Courteous also irreplaceable in the Champions League. The only game he hasn’t played this season is moment Madrid eliminated by Alcoyano in the Copa Del Rey. At that time, Zidane fielded Andriy Lunin, and El Real lost 1-2.
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