Thibaut Courtois insists that Real Madrid is ready to leave their piece problems behind them and quell one of the greatest threats of Arsenal in The first quarterfinal match of the Tuesday Champions League.
Mouctar Diakhaby heading in Valencia 2-1 victory at Santiago Bernabéu It was the tenth goal that Madrid has admitted since the corners this season, a bad omen since dead balls are one of the most devastating weapons of Arsenal, ERM, Arsenal. Mikel Arteta’s 31 goals team has scored at the Set pieces league games since the beginning of last season, it is only improved by Bayer Leverkusen in the five best leagues in Europe.
You can miss your best piece of piece, Gabriel Magalhaes marginalized for the rest of the seasonBut the deliveries of Bukayo Saka and Declan Rice are often so dangerous that it does not require a great center to return to the end of them. Madrid is certainly aware of the danger that its hosts can pose when the ball is not played with Courtois warning that arsenal can win a set of SET pieces.
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“We work in the defense pieces in training yesterday,” said Courtois. “We know that Arsenal is good with them. We cannot give too many corners. It is a matter of concentration. Sometimes the quality of the rival can cause us problems. They can be well positioned. We know how difficult it can be to defend themselves from good positions, but we are ready to do so and we believe we have prepared well for this.
“We will defend ourselves as we defend it. We tend to defend ourselves in zonal systems with blocks, some go from man to man. Sometimes you have to use your intuition to know what publication is going, we know that Arsenal will try to block me, we will protect against it.
“You can’t ask for a foul. You have to defend Set pieces. They can win a game like that.”
Carlo Ancelotti was equally optimistic, and pointed out that Madrid also fights exactly to turn his dead balls into goals. Two of his goals in a 4-4 draw with the true society arrived in that way, as well as Vinicius’ in the defeat against Valencia.
“They are really strong and dangerous in this situation,” said Ancelotti. “We try to defend the best we can. We also have to create damage, we score three goals in the last two games. It is a really important part of the game and then all the rest is.”
Arsenal’s free kicks and corners are not the only plays established under the Madrid press center lately. Vinicius could have scored on Saturday, but a penalty was also lost just weeks after not being able to beat Jan Oblak from 12 yards. Ancelotti confirmed that the role of First Choice penalty Taker is under the center of attention, but supported Vinicius to recover from the reverse.
“I haven’t talked to him, I don’t need,” he said. “I could have played the weekend better, but I don’t need to talk to him about it. He is a young boy, tomorrow will have a great game.”
The first game of Tuesday establishes the most successful team of the Champions League against one that for several years has simply struggled to return to that stage. The draw last season against Bayern Munich, one in which they were eliminated by Joshua Kimmich, was the first quarterfinal arsenal he had played in the competition for 14 years. Fifteen times the Madrid champions are their most successful team, Dani Carvajal and Luka Modric are their most successful players with six victories and Ancelotti in five by much with much their most successful coach.
“The experience in this competition is very, very important,” said Ancelotti. “The experience means that you are not afraid to play this type of game that presses you a lot. This is face to face, a lot of pressure on this game. The experience is really important, having many players who already played this type of game, gives the players more confidence.”
