Thibaut Courtois: Pre-season Clasico defeat doesn’t count

Thibaut Courtois has warned Barcelona followers to not get too enthusiastic about their victory over Actual Madrid this summer time.

Actual, who gained La Liga and the Champions League final season, suffered a blow to their preparations for the brand new marketing campaign as they fell to a 1-0 defeat to their fierce rivals in Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium.

Each managers named robust lineups and the soccer on present was quick and spectacular, however finally it was Barcelona who had the final snicker as a powerful strike from summer time signing Raphinha proved the distinction.

Within the wake of the sport, Courtois has insisted the defeat means nothing in any respect.

“Clearly, you may’t draw many conclusions,” he stated. “Some gamers have been coaching for 2 weeks and others only one.

“Crucial factor was to select up the tempo, begin with good depth which we’ve not all the time had in recent times. For our first recreation, it was good. The one damaging is that we did not get a purpose and so they scored an incredible one. We hit the crossbar and theirs went into the highest nook.”

He continued: “In pre-season the outcome does not depend. I keep in mind after we misplaced 7-3 towards Atletico Madrid [in 2019] after which beat them twice to win La Liga. The outcomes now do not say a lot.

“Clearly, we favor to win right here, in entrance of the US followers, however it’s the primary recreation and we needed to decide up the tempo. We do not just like the defeat however we do not have to overreact to it both.”

Regardless of calling for warning in regards to the outcome, Courtois did acknowledge the presence of an issue for Real – the absence of Karim Benzema, with out whom Los Blancos appeared a bit of toothless in assault as soon as once more.

“We gained La Liga and the Champions League with this crew and now we have religion, but when Karim just isn’t there, we’re lacking a purpose or creating much less hazard,” the goalkeeper admitted.

“It’s the first recreation, so we do not have to attract conclusions. Within the Tremendous Cup, we all know everybody should be prepared.”

This text was initially revealed on 90min as Thibaut Courtois: Pre-season Clasico defeat doesn’t count.

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