Zidane defends Courtois: there is No point to no one

Announced last Tuesday and real Madrid in their social networks and official website, as usual the day prior to each match, the call to Paris , and as before the Lift, the list chirriaba. Three goalkeepers and three central midfielders, who were really only two, because James is a ‘10’ relocated to the central area of the field by major causes.

A patch, as it does with Isco, by the lack of effective in that area of the field, the result of a planning summer bold and daring on the part of Zidane . To limit the template to four midfielders (two of them for over thirty years) when in your usual system you play with three, is to get the outfit of a tightrope walker. And that, normally, does not usually come out well, especially if in front you have a great team that board, a pivot, two means and strip to the bands in the zone offense two interior. Inferiority physical in all the balls separated, and numerical limitation that makes chasing shadows and the ball, and a highway to the rival team in terms of a pass filter or a slalom above that white line so weakened. Gaps to Zidane are summarized in an explanation perhaps lack of more arguments: "we do Not enter never in the match, but I think that is only a problem of intensity, which is the most important thing in football. You can play worse, but if you put the leg in a ball split you are in the game. Has not been the case and it bothers me. We have exceeded in the game, in the media, in the intensity... At this level and in this competition, this can't be done. They were very superiors".

Neither seems like a good idea to start the season with four goalkeepers, to give in to two of them, and sell to the substitute on the last day of the market. An alternate that was only in comparison with the holder in the age. The youth of Courtois is the only argument justifiable in order to understand the decision to choose belgium ahead of Keylor Navas , although Zidane prefer not to open this wound: "what about The first goal? When we lose, it's the fault of all. I don't want to point out to anyone"

it's Not a bad goalkeeper Thibaut , but his performance is far from what is required to be under the crossbar Madrid. In the white club needs a goalkeeper that make miracles happen. Courtois neither makes them, nor stopped the 'simple': "In the first goal, Di Maria shoots strong and I don't have time to react. Of course I'm frustrated about conceding, but avoiding them is the work of the whole team," said the belgian. In that 1-0, did not protect well your stick in the punterazo of Di Maria , and was not fast in the reaction in the second goal for the argentine, shot from the front of the area.

Only the first part of the Bale can rescue the party's level of real Madrid at the parc des Princes , in which no shot on goal or a one-time ninety minutes, something that has not happened since 2009, a fact lapidary: "I did Not like this fact. With the offensive players that we have in the field, not to shoot to door is weird and strange," he mused Zidane

Gareth was the only one that did work to Keylor , and even came to whisk you with a beautiful vaseline with your leg right hand that the VAR overturned by hand prior to the welsh. It was the only highlight of a party black in Paris , which gets the first place in the group very difficult and that it will cause an extra effort to seal the pass to the knockout stage. A hit of reality for a Real Madrid side that transmits bad vibes from the summer, and only a four-day visit to the leader of the League. The curves are only just starting.