Courtois against Cadiz and Lunin against Bayern
Thibaut Courtois will play against Cadiz, again appearing in the first match in which Real Madrid have a chance to become La Liga champions EA Sports, the coach confirmed Carlo Anchelottiwho announced that in the second leg of the Champions League semi-final against Bayern he will keep Andrei Lunin in the starting lineup.
Return what you want
“Tibu is fine. Tomorrow he will play after a long time“Ancelotti admitted as much in a press conference, confirming Belgian Courtois’ first game of the season after overcoming two knee injuries.
“It’s very good news for us that he’s coming back, just like Militao. I think he can contribute. He’s feeling very good, he’s very excited. We’re all glad he can come back,” he added.
From now on, Ancelotti will evaluate Courtois’s condition in every game and did not want to look at it. what will happen before the Champions League final, if Real Madrid survives the semi-finals. At the moment, he confirmed that the Ukrainian Lunin will start against Bayern at the Santiago Bernabeu.
Dilemma ahead of a hypothetical Champions League final
“The finale we have in mind is Wednesday, against Bayern. Lunin will play, and then we’ll see“, he admitted. “We are not thinking about whether Courtois can play in a hypothetical final. We are not thinking about what could happen in a month. The final will take place on Wednesday. I hope we will think about it, because it will mean that we will play in the final in London,” he said.
Asked about Courtois’s chances compared to those of Brazilian Eder Militao, who previously returned from the same cruciate knee injury, the Madrid coach differentiated both cases.
“The injury is similar. The player recovers well physically after seven or eight months; what he lacks is reading the situations on the field, which are different for a defender than for a goalkeeper. Everyone needs time to adapt to In any case, it is possible that there is one before and one after. On a physical level, they are very healthy, they are discharged for health reasons, and then there are indications of situations that we have to evaluate,” he said.