Thibaut Courtois will play against Cádiz, reappearing in the first match in which Real Madrid has a chance of becoming LaLiga champion EA Sports, as confirmed by coach Carlo Ancelotti, who revealed that in the second leg of the Champions League semi-finals against Bayern will keep Andriy Lunin as starter.
«Thibu is fine. “Tomorrow he will play after a long time,” Ancelotti acknowledged at a press conference confirming Belgian Courtois’ first game of the season after overcoming two knee injuries.
«It is very good news for us that he returns, like Militao. I think he can contribute what he has contributed. He is very good, he is very excited. “We are all delighted that he can return,” he added.
From now on, Ancelotti will evaluate Courtois’ condition every game and did not want to look at what will happen in the face of the Champions League final, if Real Madrid overcomes the semifinals. For now, he confirmed the Ukrainian Lunin as a starter against Bayern at the Santiago Bernabéu.
«The final that we have in mind is Wednesday, against Bayern. Lunin is going to play and then we will see,” he confessed. «We do not think about whether Courtois can play in a hypothetical final. We don’t think about what can happen in a month. The final is on Wednesday. I hope we can think about it because it will mean that we get to play in the London final,” he said.
Asked about Courtois’ chances compared to those of the Brazilian Éder Militao, who reappeared before from the same cruciate knee injury, the Madrid coach separated both cases.
«The injury is similar. A player after seven, eight months recovers well on a physical level, what he lacks is the reading of situations on the field, which are different for a defender than for a goalkeeper. Each one needs time to adapt to their own way, maybe one before and another after. On a physical level they are very well, they are medically discharged and then there are the readings of the situations that we have to evaluate,” he stated. EFE
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