2023-05-09 06:00:00
This Tuesday, Real Madrid and Manchester City meet in the semi-finals of the Champions League. A duel synonymous with the first encounter between Thibaut Courtois et Erling Haaland. The Diables Rouges goalkeeper is used to shining in big games and was also voted man of the match in the LDC final won by the Merengue last season.
But in front of him, it is the Norwegian cyborg who stands up. A man who lives only for the goal and especially for the Champions League. He had also revealed in 2019 to use the music of the LDC as an alarm clock.
Thibaut Courtois is now a regular at the big-eared cut. Semi-finalist in 2021, winner in 2022, Real is semi-final for the third consecutive time in 2023. Each time, the Red Devils goalkeeper was between the poles of the white house and was decisive.
Big names have come up once morest Courtois, but Haaland looks set to break all records and nothing seems to scare him. At 22, he already has 35 goals in the Champions League and is on the verge of becoming one of the top 20 scorers in the history of the competition. Its precocity is almost frightening and eclipses the greatest. With 25 goals in his first 20 Champions League games, Haaland far ahead of the 8 goals of Messi and even further from Cristiano Ronaldo who had not found the net in their first 20 meetings.
Courtois once morest Haaland is also a duel between experience and passion. The Real goalkeeper’s record is no longer presented, he has won almost everything. Haaland has the fangs. Apart from two Austrian championships with Salzburg and a German Cup with Dortmund, the Norwegian has not yet experienced much of the joys of victory and hopes to offer himself a few titles with City, starting with the Champions League, his obsession.
One of the keys to the meeting therefore certainly rests in the hands of Thibaut Courtois. If he manages to play his role as a wall once morest the Norwegian serial scorer, Real will no doubt have done some of the work to qualify for a new final, even if obviously Haaland is not the only danger for the well-oiled Manchester collective. City.
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