Paul Rouget, Media365: published on Monday December 2, 2024 at 10:08 a.m.
Author of his 10th goal of the season on Sunday during Real Madrid's victory against Getafe (2-0), will Kylian Mbappé finally succeed in stringing them together? This is the opinion of his teammate Thibaut Courtois, who recalled the famous ketchup bottle theory.
A smile found. Humiliated and mocked four days earlier after his cataclysmic performance, and his missed penalty, during Real Madrid's defeat on Liverpool's pitch in the Champions League (0-2), Kylian Mbappé found color on Sunday. While the Merengue club dominated Getafe as part of the 15th day of La Liga (2-0), the former Parisian doubled the lead, after a penalty converted by Jude Bellingham (30th), from a post returning from the outside the area on a serve from his English teammate (38th).
Supporters in support
And if we feared that he would be the target of the Bernabeu whistles, the Madrid fans ultimately supported him from the start, like his teammates, who all went to congratulate him after this goal, the 10th of his season in all competitions. . He was also entitled to congratulations from his coach, Carlo Ancelotti, while Thibaut Courtois used the famous ketchup theory, theorized by Ruud van Nistelrooy and really popularized by Cristiano Ronaldo. “Goals are like ketchup. Sometimes when you try, it doesn't come and then they all come at once,” the Dutchman, then at Real, told his young teammate Gonzalo Higuain in 2010.
Courtois awaits his hat-trick
For Courtois, “it will be the same with him. He will score more goals, he works hard and we have to support him. When you want it too much, it doesn't come out. The more you want it, the less it comes out. It's about “be calm, do the easy things well and then you will succeed in the difficult things. Let's hope that this goal will give him confidence and that in Bilbao (next Wednesday, editor's note), he will score three”, confided the Belgian goalkeeper. reports AS. A first Madrid hat-trick that the captain of the Blues could have achieved on Sunday, if he had managed to convert his other clear chances. What if it was just postponed?
