The Belgian footballer Thibaut Courtois, goalkeeper of Real Madrid, stated this Tuesday that “sometimes” it is “as hard for them to start the first half as the second”, after his team’s 2-3 victory on their visit to Atalanta BC during matchday 6 of the league phase in the Champions League.
“Sometimes it is as difficult for us to start the first half as the second, because we have conceded goals in those minutes and today it was the other way around. So we are happy with that, happy with the victory on a very difficult field and now at home against the Salzburg and away in Brest we have to continue doing the same, Brest is doing very well and Salzburg is always a difficult opponent,” Courtois declared before the Movistar Plus+ microphones from the Gewiss Stadium in Bergamo.
“Here it is a very difficult field, their way of playing is very difficult. Furthermore, they are leaders in Serie A, in the Champions League they were also doing very well and we know that it was a difficult match. I think we started very well, with the goal and on some occasions, then they started to press a little more and it was difficult for us to continue playing as we were doing for the first 15-20 minutes,” the merengue goalkeeper stressed.
“Then the penalty is bad luck, you go to the locker room tied, but we changed some things and in the second half it was better. We scored two goals quickly and then it is true that we conceded the second of them quite quickly, but we kept well from not losing, or of not tying, and that we can withstand their last shots,” Courtois added.
Finally, he spoke about the possible injury of Kylian Mbappé. “I think he felt the muscle contracting a little bit. I don’t think it was anything serious, he stopped at the right time and I don’t think he noticed a puncture, just that the muscle was going harder. So maybe we lost him to the weekend, but I hope not later,” he concluded.
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